Hierachically Structured Materials

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Materials Research Society Symposium proceedings
• Part I. Structures, Properties and Design Rules in Hierarchical Materials in Nature:
• 1. Characterization of the complex matrix of mytilus edulis shell and the implications for biometric ceramics
• 2. A hierarchically structured model composite: a tem study of the hard tissue of red abalone
• 3. Self-organization (assembly) in biosynthesis of silk fibers - a hierarchical problem
• 4. Physics of complex-biological membranes and cell interfaces
• 5. Self-assembly of bacterial macrofibers: a system based upon hierarchies of helices
• Part II. Synthetic Hierarchical Structures and Design Rules:
• 6. Polymer liquid crystals and their blends: a hierarchy of structures
• 7. Hierarchical structures in liquid crystalline polymers
• 8. Conductive composite fibers with a rigid-rod matrix
• 9. Structural and morphological features of synthetic and natural polymers
• Part III. Composite Structures and Mechanical Properties:
• 10. Mechanical behaviour of hierarchical synthetic composites
• 11. Hierarchy in extended chain polymers
• 12. The influence of reinforcing fibers on the morphology and crystallization of thermoplastic polymer composites
• 13. Polymer microlayer composites
• 14. Characterizing hierarchical structures of natural ivory
• 15. Hierarchical structure of a natural composite: insect cuticle
• 16. Structure-mechanical property relationships in a biological ceramic-polymer composite: nacre
• 17. Failure problems in composites
• Part IV. Pattern Formation in Synthetic and Natursal Composites:
• 18. DNA binding to conducting polymer films
• 19. α-Hemolysin: a self-assembling protein pore with potential applications in the synthesis of new materials
• 20. Cluster assembly of hierarchical nanostructures
• 21. Design and synthesis of metals (tungsten) with structural hierarchy for very high temperatures
• Part V. Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Hierarchically Structured Materials:
• 22. Hierarchical structure and light scattering in the cornea
• 23. Nonlinear optical properties of hierarchical systems
• 24. Biometric sensors and actuators
• 25. Dielectric permittivities at x-band frequencies of conductive fibers aligned in polymer matrices
• 26. Eukaryotic transduction pathways and man-made systems compared
• 27. Morphology control of the electrochromic effect in tungsten oxide thin films
• 28. Hierarchical design of electrochromic glasses
• Part VI. Scaling and Structural Characterization in Hierarchical Natural and Synthetic Structures:
• 29. Imaging of hierarchically structured materials
• 30. Statistical mechanics of phase transitions with a hierarchy of structures
• 31. Hierarchical tilings
• 32. Disorder and scaling in regular and hierarchical composites
• 33. Hierarchical structures that arise from self-assembling systems Edmund A. Di Marzio
• 34. Hierarchical cellular materials
• Part VII. Processing of Synthetic Hierarchical Structures:
• 35. Hierarchically structured materials generated in membrane mimetic systems: nanosized particle production of CdS and ZnS at monolayers
• 36. Biometric mineralization of an aligned, self-assembled collagenous matrix
• Part VIII. Molecular Design of Hierarchical Structures:
• 37. Structural polysaccharides in molecular architecture of plant cell walls - from algae to hardwoods
• 38. Hierarchical structure and physical properties of natural cellulosic fibers
• 39. Toward monodisperse poly(γ-benzyl α, l-glutamate): uniform, polar, molecular rods
• 40. Hierarchical and modulable hydrophobic folding and self-assembly in elastic protein-based polymers: implications for signal transduction
• 41. Self-assembled α-helical polypeptide films
• 42. Design of protein-producing bioreactors for self-assembling systems
• Author index
• Subject index.
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