Self assembly : from surfactants to nanoparticles This book covers state of the art tools in surfactant self assembled structures in a single reference. The book begins with basic fundamental concepts that have been well established by a long history of research on more classical self assembly systems based on surfactants or polymers and then progressively builds in complexity in terms of the types of assembling building blocks leading ultimately to complex biomolecular self assemblies to hybrid multicomponent assemblies for example involving nanoparticles and amphiphilic molecules. Cutting edge topics of hierarchichal self assembly are included such as assembly of primitive membranes. The book is suitable as a supplementary text for a physical and chemical separation processes or basic colloidal phenomena class Provided by publisher