軟納米科學(xué)

　　Soft nanoscience is an area that is occupied principally by chemists， and is in many ways indistinguishable from nanochemistry.Soft nanoscience is the branch of nanotechnology concerned with the synthesis and properties of organic and organometallic nanostructures， and with nanofabrication using techniques in which soft components play key roles.It begins with a brief history of soft nano-technology.This history has followed a path involving a gradual shift from the promise of revolutionary electronics， nanorobotics， and other futuristic concepts，to the realization of evolutionary improvements in the technology for current challenges in information technology， medicine， and sustainability.Soft nano-science is an area that is occupied principally by chemists， and is in many ways indistinguishable from nanochemistry.The paper identifies the natural tendency of its practitioners-exemplified by the speakers at this Faraday Discussion-tofocus on synthesis and structure， rather than on function and application， of nano-structures.Soft nanotechnology has the potential to apply to a wide variety of large-scale applied （information technology， healthcare cost reduction， sustainabil-ity， energy） and fundamental （molecular biochemistry， cell biology， charge trans-port in organic matter） problems.In the present book， twenty-one typical literatures about soft nanoscience published on international authoritative journals were selected to introduce the worldwide newest progress， which contains reviews or original researches on soft nanoscience， which includes polymers and colloids.This will necessarily address nanostructured polymers （e.g.block copolymers）， nanocomposites， physical gels，microemulsions， surface/interface modification， new processes （e.g.electrospin-https：//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20334113.ning/spraying）， confinement effects， the organic/biological interface， and respon-sive/functional polymers.We hope this book can demonstrate advances in soft nanoscience as well as give references to the researchers， students and other re-lated people.

　　編委會(huì)成員由國(guó)內(nèi)外著名高校、科研中心及重點(diǎn)實(shí)驗(yàn)室專家組成，國(guó)際有哈佛大學(xué)、麻省理工學(xué)院、加州理工學(xué)院、牛津大學(xué)、劍橋大學(xué)、芝加哥大學(xué)、哥倫比亞大學(xué)、耶魯大學(xué)、康奈爾大學(xué)、賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)、帝國(guó)理工學(xué)院等，國(guó)內(nèi)有清華大學(xué)、北京大學(xué)、中國(guó)科學(xué)院、香港大學(xué)、武漢大學(xué)等。每分冊(cè)由10名相關(guān)領(lǐng)域的專家組成編委會(huì)，他們均為國(guó)內(nèi)外著名學(xué)府、科研中心及重點(diǎn)實(shí)驗(yàn)室一線工作科研專家。