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Adsorption of Poly(vinyl formamide-co-vinyl amine) (PVFA-co-PVAm) onto Metal Surfaces
The formation of stable metal/polymer joints is an enormous challenge in material sciences. Good adhesion requires an interphase which is able to... -
Visualization of Charge Domains on Polymer Surfaces
The tribo-electric charging of polymers is widely known and applied in many technical processes. However, the molecular and electronic reasons for... -
Magnetism of Ultrathin Metal Films
The last two chapters have described the growth and structure of epitaxial films. Here, the basic aspects of ultrathin-film magnetism and their... -
Growth of Ultrathin Metal Films
Driven by the requirement to tailor film properties for many technological applications, our understanding of the atomic processes involved in... -
Phase behavior of phytanyl-chained akylglycoside/water systems
The aqueous phase behavior of novel alkylglycosides, AGs, that have a 3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecyl (phytanyl) group as their hydrophobic part was... -
Adsolubilization by mixtures of ionic and non-ionic surfactants
The adsolubilization of 2-naphthol by surfactant mixtures of ionic and non-ionic surfactants has been investigated for three systems; sodium dodecyl... -
Salt-induced aggregation in cationic liposome suspensions
The simple salt-induced aggregation of small unilamellar dioleoyltrimethylammoniumpropane [DOTAP] vesicles is investigated by measuring the change in... -
Enzymatic activity of lipase entrapped in CTAB/water/pentanol/hexane reverse micelles: a functional and microstructural investigation
The lipase VII (from Candida rugosa) activity was studied as a function of the content of pentanol and water in cethyltrimethylammonium bromide... -
Perfluoropolyether carboxylic salts in micellar solution and O/W microemulsions
High purity laboratory-scale samples of Cl(C3F6O) n CF2COOX salts are examined for their micellization in water, with n... -
Improved colloidal stability by seeded emulsion copolymerization of styrene with acrylic acid
The incorporation of acrylic acid (AA) in styrene (S) latex particles was investigated to improve colloidal stability. AA was added at high S... -
Study of the effect of porogen amount on formation of uniform polystyrene hollow particles prepared by SPG membrane emulsification technique
Uniform polystyrene (PSt) hollow particles were prepared by combining a Shirasu porous glass (SPG) emulsification technique and a subsequent... -
Study of the preparation monodisperse micron-sized PEG-coated polymer particles utilizing different methods
Polystyrene (PS) seed particles in the size range of one to several microns were prepared by dispersion polymerization and swelling techniques.... -
Monolithic Silicon Light Sources
Monolithic silicon light sources (LEDs and lasers) could have a significant impact when integrated on silicon chips. After a general introduction to... -
5. Simulation of Active and Nonlinear Photonic Nano-Materials in the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Framework
A numerical method is presented that unites three-dimensional finite-differnce time-domain (FDTD) computer simulations of active, nonlinear photonic... -
Results for Sr2RuO4
In this chapter, we focus on our results for the elementary excitations and Cooper pairing in strontium ruthenate (... -
Characterization of Floating Surface Layers of Lipids and Lipopolymers by Surface-Sensitive Scattering
Nanotechnology and molecular (bio-)engineering are making ever deepening inroads into everybody’s daily life. Physicochemical and biotechnological... -
Silicon Fundamentals for Photonics Applications
The many and diverse approaches to materials science problems have greatly enhanced our ability to engineer the physical properties of... -
Monolithic Silicon Microphotonics
The technology evolution of optical interconnection is driven by the distance × product required for a given link. As such optical fiber deployment... -
13. Parallel Implementation Strategiesfor Algorithms from Scientific Computing
Many applications from scientific computing are computationally intensive and can therefore benefit from a realization on a parallel or a distributed... -
Theory of Cooper Pairing Due to Exchange of Spin Fluctuations
It is of general interest whether singlet high- \(T_{\rm c}\)...