Organic Thin Films: An Overview
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Tisato Kajiyama, Guest Editor for this issue of the MRS Bulletin, is a professor in the Department of Chemical Science and Technology at Kyushu University (6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812, Japan; phone: 8192-641-1101; fax: 81-92651-5606; e-mail: tkajitcf@ mbox.nc.kyushuu.ac.jp). His research interests include fatigue analysis of polymeric solids, surface viscoelastic measurements, physical properties of (polymer/ liquid-crystal) composite systems, construction and functions of defect-diminished monolayer and Langmuir-Blodgett films, and blood compatibility of biomedical polymers. He received a PhD degree from the University of Massachusetts and a DEng degree from Kyushu University.
area which has been stimulated by the many promising applications for new devices and materials based on thin films, and by the new methods emerging for preparation and characterization of the films. By surveying such diverse methods of preparation and different types of systems such as evaporated organic films (Matsushige), self-adsorbed monolayers (Ulman), Langmuir-Blodgett films (Kajiyama, Whitten et al., Okahata et al.) and lipid bilayers (Kunitake, Whitten et al.), the reader will obtain an overview of the techniques for preparing and characterizing these films as well as the potential applications and problems
David G. Whitten, Guest Editor for this issue of the MRS Bulletin, received an AB degree in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University, and MA and PhD degrees from the same institution. In 1983 he assumed his present position as C.E. Kenneth Mees Professor of Chemistry at the University of Rochester where he is also director of the National Science Foundation Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer. His research interests include fundamental studies of photochemical reactivity, including electrontransfer reactions. Whitten can be reached at the Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester; Rochester, NY 14627; phone: 716275-8286; fax: 716-4736889; whitten@chem. chem.rochester.edu.
Tisato Kajiyama Toyoki Kunitake, Guest Editor for this issue of the MRS Bulletin, is a professor at the Department of Chemical Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, at Kyushu University. He also serves as principal investigator of the government-supported Supermolecules Project (International Joint Research Program, Research Development Corporation of Japan). He holds BEng and
related to their use. Some of the articles deal with the very important issues of homogeneity, and defect assessment and elimination, such as the article by Kajiyama. The articles by Okahata et al. and Kunitake focus on some of the novel applications that these films can offer in the domain of molecular recognition and biomimetic chemistry. Ulman's article emphasizes the versatile applications that are possible from the wide selection of component molecular structures used to form the self-assembled layers. Several of the articles emphasize the supramolecular aspects of these films in which either the total structure or some subset in a film or bilayer
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