Structural and Morphological Evolution in Metal-Organic Films and Multilayers

by Alokmay Datta, Smita Mukherjee

Overview

Structural and Morphological Evolution in Metal-Organic Films and Multilayers presents major results of the authors' work carried out on Langmuir monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers. The authors address two important questions:Are metal-organic monolayer systems more like solids or more like liquids?Does a two-dimensional system have diffe

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040212929
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	10/15/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Alokmay Datta is a senior professor at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata, India, whose research interest lies in structure and dynamics at surfaces and interfaces of soft materials, nanomaterials, and biomaterials. He has been working on Langmuir monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett films for more than 20 years. He has introduced several new concepts and techniques to the study of these low-dimensional, complex systems, which have helped in a revival of interest in them.

Smita Mukherjee is currently a guest researcher at the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute in Kolkata, India, perusing her interest in inorganic-organic hybrid structures. She previously worked as a PhD research scholar at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata, India, exploring the morphological, structural, and spectroscopic aspects of metal-organic systems at air-water and air-solid interfaces (Langmuir monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett films). She continued her post-doctoral research in the interdisciplinary field of soft materials, including polymers, biomaterials, and complex metal-organic nanostructures, at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the Institut des Nanosciences de Paris in France.

Table of Contents

Monolayers and Multilayers. Preparing Monolayers and Multilayers. Probing Tools. Theoretical Background for Data Analysis. Headgroup Coordination and Film Structure. Headgroup Conformation and Film Structure. Evolution of Film Morphology. "Liquid" and "Solid" Films. Metal-Organics and Nanocrystal Formation. Conclusions and Outlook. Bibliography.

Editorial Reviews

"Smita Mukherjee and Alokmay Datta of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, one of the world’s leading centers for monolayer and multilayer studies, have now written a worthy successor to Gaines’s book. … this book describes in remarkable detail where we are today and where we are going. … Those who wish to learn what has been done, or who aspire to do more, would be wise to start by reading this book."
—From the Foreword by Pulak Dutta, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

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