Colloidal Self-Assembly

Junpei Yamanaka received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1991. He is currently a professor in the colloid and polymer laboratory at Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research interests are in the self-assembly and structure formation of colloids. He has done research in this field for over 30 years and has published articles in internationally renowned journals including Physical Review Letters and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience at Nagoya City University and 5 years at Fukui University. Tohru Okuzono received his Ph.D. from Kyushu University in 1994. His research interests include soft matter physics, theories and numerical simulations of colloids, polymers, and non-equilibrium systems. He is currently an associate professor at Nagoya City University. He has published articles in internationally renowned journals such as Physical Review Letters, the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, and Soft Matter. He has 10 years of teaching experience at Nagoya City University and 5 years at The University of Tokyo.  Akiko Toyotama received her Ph.D. from Nagoya City University in 2001. She is currently an associate professor in the colloid and polymer laboratory at Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her research interests are in the structure formation of colloidal materials. She has carried out research in this field for over 20 years, and she has published articles in internationally renowned journals such as Scientific Reports, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Langmuir. 

1. Introduction.- 2. Basis of Colloid Science to Understand Self-assembly.- 3. Experimental Methods.- 4. Numerical Simulation Methods.- 5. Studies on Colloidal Self-assembly.- 6. Application of the Colloidal Self-assembly.- 7. Appendices.