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Foreword. <p>Preface.</p> <p>List of Contributors</p> <p>Polyelectrolyte Multilayers, an Overview (G. Decher).</p> <p>Fundamentals of Polyelectrolyte Complexes in Solution and the Bulk (V. Kabanov). </p> <p>Polyelectrolyte Adsorption and Multilayer Formation (J. Joanny & M. Castelnovo).</p> <p>Charge Balance and Transport in  Polyelectrolyte Multilayers (J. Schlenoff).</p> <p>pH-Controlled Fabrication of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: Assembly and Applications (M. Rubner).</p> <p>Recent Progress in the Surface Sol-Gel Process and Protein Multilayers (I. Ichinose, <i>et al</i>.).</p> <p>Internally Structured Polyelectrolyte Multilayers (K. Glinel, <i>et al</i>.).</p> <p>Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Nanoparticles and Nanocolloids: Intermolecular Interactions, Structure and Materials Perspectives (N. Kotov).</p> <p>Layer-by-Layer Self-assembled Polyelectrolytes and Nanoplatelets (J. Fendler).</p> <p>Chemistry Directed Deposition via Electrostatic and Secondary Interactions: A Nonlithographic Approach to Patterned Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Systems (P. Hammond).</p> <p>Layered Nanoarchitectures Based on Electro- and Photo-active Building Blocks (X. Zhang, <i>et al</i>.).</p> <p>Coated Colloids: Preparation, Characterization, Assembly and Utilization (F. Caruso & G. Sukhorukov).</p> <p>Smart Capsules (H. Möhwald, <i>et al</i>.).</p> <p>Multilayers on Solid Planar Substrates: From Structure to Function (D. Kurth, <i>et al</i>.).</p> <p>Functional Layer-by-Layer Assemblies with Photo- and Electrochemical Response and Selective Transport of Small Molecules and Ions (B. Tieke, <i>et al</i>.).</p> <p>Self-assembly and Characterization of Electro-optic Materials (R. Claus, <i>et al</i>.).</p> <p>Controlling the Ion-Permeability of Layered Polyelectrolyte Films and Membranes (M. Bruening).</p> <p>Index.</p>

"...highly recommended to anyone interested in the field...and to scientists and researchers active in materials development..." (<i>Polymer News</i>) <p>"...the first book that updates the advances in the multilayer thin-film technology and will remain as the most important book in the field..." (<i>Pharmaceutical Research</i>, Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2003)</p> <p>"Each chapter contains pertinent information and discussions completed with a rich and up-to-dated reference; generally, all chapters are well written, the editors and the authors have tried to avoid overlapping of information. ... This multi-authored monograph offers compact and up-to-date information for the beginners, and also for the scientists working in this exciting domain." (Adrian Carpov, <i>Cellulose Chemistry and Technology</i>, Ed. by the Romanian Academy, January-April, 39/2005)</p>

<p><b>Gero Decher</b> is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, France, a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a member of the International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry. His research team is located at CNRS Institut Charles Sadron in Strasbourg where he continues to develop the layer-by-layer assembly method in collaboration with his colleagues, Pierre Schaaf and Jean-Claude Voegel. This method is applied in many laboratories worldwide in various scientific disciplines, including chemistry, materials science and biotechnology. Gero Decher has received numerous awards, including the ECIS-Rhodia prize in 2010 and the Grand Prix of the French "Academie des Sciences" for Nanobiotechnology in 2009.</p> <p><b>Joseph B. Schlenoff</b> is Mandelkern Professor of Polymer Science of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. His laboratory is engaged in multidisciplinary research centered on the use of novel structures made from polyelectrolytes that are deposited using the layer-by-layer technique. His work, supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, among others, focuses on fundamental polymer science aspects of polyelectrolyte complexes and on their interactions with biological materials. In 2011, Joseph Schlenoff received a Gutenburg Chair at the University of Strasbourg.</p>

Materials scientists are often faced with the problem of modifying surfaces of objects, yet keeping their shape and properties. This book provides a detailed survey on the new technology of adsorption from solution for the fabrication of molecularly ordered multicomposite films in order to replace and expand on the well known Langmuir-Blodgett technology and to open the field of molecular s4elf- assembly to materials and biosciences. <p>The book is aimed at scientists who want to integrate several different functional entities in a single device. To this audience it presents the technique of layer-by-layer assembly as today's most powerful key technology, which is low cost, solution based and very robust. It is already beginning to make the transition from academic research into industrial mass production.</p>

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