Nanoscale liquid interfaces: wetting, patterning, and force microscopy at the molecular scale

Front Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 20
Liquid Structure at the Solid–Liquid Interface......Page 26
Wetting, Roughness, and Hydrodynamic Slip......Page 54
Wetting Phenomena on the Nanometer Scale......Page 108
Stability of Thin Liquid Films......Page 180
Thin Films in CompleteWetting and the Specific Case of Nematic Liquid Crystals......Page 218
Droplet Morphology at Nanometer Scale......Page 260
Surface Bubbles in Microand Nanofluidics......Page 284
Use of Ultrasonic ShearWaves for the Study of Liquid Interfaces......Page 306
Nanomeniscus Mechanical Properties......Page 332
Wetting in Carbon Inorganic and Organic Nanotubes and Nanochannels......Page 386
Capillary Action in Silicon-Based Nanochannels......Page 428
Manipulation of Liquid Nanodrops......Page 466
Field-Induced NanoscaleWater Bridges and Tip-Based Oxidation Nanolithography......Page 518
Technological Applications of Dewetting......Page 554
Directed Assembly of Particles through Convective Flows and Capillary Forces......Page 602
Molecular Combing of DNA and Carbon Nanotubes by a Moving Meniscus......Page 646
High-Resolution AFM Imaging of Native Biological Membranes......Page 682
Molecular-Resolution FM-AFM Imaging of Biological Systems......Page 706
High-Speed AFM and Imaging of Biomolecular Processes......Page 738
Back Cover......Page 769