Description
This is the second volume in the two-volume textbook, Functional Soft Matter, written for students and early-career researchers studying the scientific foundations of functional soft matter. The first volume, Functional Soft Matter I: Basic Principles, focuses on fundamentals; this second volume presents analytical methods and recent topics.
The book comprises two parts. The first part presents analytical methods for structural, interfacial, electrochemical, optical, and electronic properties of functional soft matter, as well as simulation approaches. It is aimed at graduate students and young researchers conducting research in this field, who will acquire a range of techniques for analyzing functional soft matter. The second part introduces recent research topics in functional soft matter science and engineering, providing insights into current trends.
Table of Contents
Scanning probe microscopy for the investigation of organic materials Shinobu Uemura.- Diffraction Methods Mitsuo Hara.-Thermal Analysis Kyosuke Isoda.- Electronic Properties of Soft Matter Hiroaki Iino and Masahiro Funahashi.- Optical Properties of anisotropic and chiral media Ryotaro Ozaki.- Molecular Dynamics Simulation Go Watanabe and Yoshiki Ishii.- Interfacial Analysis of Organic Devices Keishiro Tahara.- Electrochemical Measurement Kazuya Kubo.- Recent Advancements in p-Conjugated Polymers for Semiconductor Device Applications Satoru Inoue.- Photoalignment Polymers Mizuho Kondo.- Photoresists for miniaturization of semiconductor devices Masashi Yamamoto.- Liquid crystals with electronic functions Masahiro Funahashi.- Liquid Crystals with Ionic Functions Takahiro Ichikawa.- Functional liquids based on organic materials Kyosuke Isoda.- Functional Gels Masafumi Yoshio.- Mechanochromic Luminescent Soft Materials Yoshimitsu Sagara.- Sensing Materials Real-Sample Analysis Using Organic FET-based Chemical Sensors Yui Sasaki and Tsuyoshi Minami.- Printing Technology for Device Integration Hiroaki Iino.- Liquid-crystalline metal complexes Shin-ichiro Kawano.- Generation and Control of Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Organic Materials Yoshitane Imai.- Colorless and Transparent Photoluminescence Materials (CLT-PLM) Hiroki Iwanaga.
