CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. Drying a Sessile Droplet: Imaging and Analysis of Transport and Deposition Patterns -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The Basic Droplet-Drying Phenomenon -- 1.3. Mathematic Models -- 1.3.1. Droplet shape -- 1.3.2. Governing equations -- 1.3.3. Boundary conditions -- 1.3.3.1. Mass transfer in the vapor phase -- 1.3.3.2. Heat transfer in droplet and substrate -- 1.3.3.3. Momentum transfer -- 1.4. Vapor Phase Transport -- 1.4.1. Analytical solutions -- 1.4.2. Finite element analysis -- 1.5. Height-Averaged Radial Velocity -- 1.6. Full Flow Solution without Marangoni Effect -- 1.6.1. The derivation of the flow field -- 1.6.2. Finite element analysis -- 1.6.3. Comparison between finite element and analytical solutions -- 1.6.4. Application to deposition and stretching of DNA -- 1.7. Full Flow Solutions with Marangoni Effect -- 1.7.1. Expressions for the velocity field with a thermal Marangoni stress boundary condition -- 1.7.2. General expressions for the velocity field with Marangoni stresses -- 1.7.3. Full analytical solutions -- 1.7.4. Temperature field -- 1.7.5. Velocity field -- 1.7.6. Surface-active contaminants -- 1.7.7. Marangoni stress reverses particle deposition pattern -- 1.8. Manipulation of Flow for Patterned Depositions -- 1.9. Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- 2. Convective Assembly of Patterned Media -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Review of Prevailing Mechanisms in Convective Assembly -- 2.2.1. Drop casting of colloidal suspensions -- 2.2.2. Deposition of colloidal particles in plate-withdrawal experiments or vertical deposition -- 2.3. Spontaneously Patterned Colloidal Structures -- 2.3.1. Patterning by exploiting the Marangoni-Bénard instability -- 2.3.2. Patterning by fingering instabilities or unstable fluid fronts -- 2.3.3. Patterning by the capillary instability.

2.3.4. Patterning by contact line pinning and jumping -- 2.3.5. Patterning by spontaneous dewetting -- 2.4. Templating of Colloidal Structures Using Patterned Substrates -- 2.4.1. Particle patterning exploiting surfaces of patterned surface charge -- 2.4.2. Particle patterning exploiting surfaces of patterned wetting -- 2.4.3. Particle patterning exploiting surfaces of patterned topography -- 2.4.3.1. Capillarity based assembly in surfaces of patterned topography -- 2.4.3.2. Ordering in the presence of applied fields -- 2.4.3.3. The use of confinement and capillary interactions to form ordered structures -- 2.5. Open Issues -- 2.6. Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- 3. Materials Deposition in Evaporating Menisci - Fundamentals and Engineering Applications of the Convective Assembly Process -- 3.1. Introduction and Background to Convective Assembly -- 3.1.1. Convective assembly in thin wetting films -- 3.1.2. Drying droplets - The dynamics of deposition and structure of the deposits -- 3.2. Engineering of the Process of Convective Assembly at High Volume Fractions -- 3.2.1. The effect of evaporation rate and particle concentration -- 3.2.2. The effect of temperature -- 3.2.3. The effect of electrolytes and surfactants -- 3.3. Convective Assembly with Particles Having Multimodal Sizes and Polydispersity -- 3.3.1. Films from polydisperse particles -- 3.3.2. Adjusting film properties with multimodal particle size distributions -- 3.4. Scaling Rules for Convective Assembly -- 3.4.1. From the nanoregime to the microregime -- 3.4.2. Biological materials deposition via convective assembly -- 3.4.3. Patterning effects on homogeneous substrates without surface modification -- 3.5. Convective Assembly with Anisotropic Particles -- 3.6. Template Directed Assembly and Applications -- 3.7. Conclusions and Outlook -- References.

4. Organized Structures Formation Driven by Interfacial Instability at the Three Phase Contact Line: Langmuir-Blodgett Patterning -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Fabrication of Controllable Mesostructures Based on Lipids -- 4.2.1. Formation of mesostructures with nanochannels -- 4.2.2. Effect of surface pressure and transfer velocity -- 4.2.3. Effect of the substrate -- 4.2.4. Effect of the second component -- 4.2.5. Gradient mesotructured surface by LB rotating transfer -- 4.2.6. Mechanism behind the pattern formation -- 4.3. Transfer Induce Pattern Formation of Nanoparticles and Other Materials -- 4.3.1. LB Patterning of nanoparticles -- 4.3.2. Patterning of other functional molecules -- 4.4. Templated Self-Assembly of Molecules and Nanoparticles -- 4.4.1. Templated self-assembly of molecules in liquid and gas phase deposition -- 4.4.2. Templated self-assembly of nanoparticles -- 4.4.3. Templated patterning of proteins -- 4.5. Pattern Transfer - From Chemical to Topographical Patterns -- 4.5.1. LB lithography -- 4.5.2. Nanotopography directed growth of biological cells -- 4.5.3. Microcontact printing of semiconductor nanocrystals -- 4.6. Conclusions and Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5. Patterning and Assembling Nanomaterials by Dip Coating -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.1.1. Coffee ring stain effect -- 5.1.2. Contact line deposition of nanomaterials -- 5.2. Contact Line Deposition by Dip Coating -- 5.2.1. Dip coating of vertically aligned inorganic nanowires -- 5.2.2. Dip coating of organic nanowires -- 5.2.3. Patterning of nanoparticles bands -- 5.3. Langmuir-Blodgett Assembly of Nanomaterials with Dip Coating -- 5.3.1. Assembling single colloidal particle lines -- 5.3.2. Wine tears and assembly of nanoparticle stripe pattern -- 5.3.3. Close-packed two-dimensional nanoparticle lattice.

5.3.4. Langmuir-Blodgett assembly of graphene oxide single layers -- 5.4. Conclusions and Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6. Fabrication of Nano/Microstructured Organic Polymer Films Using Condensation: Self-assembly of Breath Figures -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Historical Aspects -- 6.2.1. Breath figures on passive substrates -- 6.2.2. Breath figures on active substrates -- 6.2.3. Polymer solutions as active substrates -- 6. 3. Current State Review -- 6.3.1. Observation in the process of breath figure templated microstructuring -- 6.3.2. Which polymers and solvents form these patterns? -- 6.3.3. Drawback of early mechanisms with micelles, polymer bags and phase inversion -- 6.4. Breath Figure Templated Assembly -- 6.4.1. Introduction -- 6.4.2. Evaporative cooling -- 6.4.3. Nucleation and growth over evaporating polymer solutions: Breath fog is the answer -- 6.4.4. Imaging of the water droplets in the initial stages -- 6.4.5. Non-coalescence of the droplet array and levitation -- 6.4.6. Late stages in the structure formation: Evaporation of the water droplets -- 6.5. Summary and Issues to be Resolved -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7. Self-Assembly of Highly Ordered Structures Enabled by Controlled Evaporation of Confined Microfluids -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Evaporative self-assembly in confined geometries -- 7.2.1. Evaporative self-assembly in two parallel substrates -- 7.2.2. Evaporative self-assembly in a cylindrical tube -- 7.2.3. Evaporative self-assembly in crossed cylindrical surfaces -- 7.2.4. Evaporative self-assembly in a restricted geometry -- 7.2.4.1. Overview -- 7.2.4.2. Construction of the restricted geometry: Sphere-on-flat -- 7.2.4.3. Gradient concentric ring formation -- 7.2.4.4. Theoretical model -- 7.2.4.5. Parameters tailored -- 7.2.4.6. Gradient ring tapestry -- 7.2.4.6.1. Organometallic polymer rings.

7.2.4.6.2. Evaporative self-assembly of nanoparticles: Rings and spokes -- 7.2.4.6.3. Semicrystalline polymer rings -- 7.2.4.6.4. Hierarchically structured polymer blend rings -- 7.2.4.7. Pattern diversity thru tailored parameters -- 7.2.4.7.1. Punch-holes -- 7.2.4.7.2. Gradient "snake-skin" -- 7.2.4.7.3. Pattern complexity: Shape effect of meniscus -- 7.3. Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- 8. Guided Assembly by Surface Controlled Dewetting and Evaporation -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Generating Stretched DNA Arrays on a Microwell Surface -- 8.3. Simulation of Flow Patterns on a Microwell Surface -- 8.4. Generating Functionalized Nanowire Arrays on a Micropillar Surface -- 8.5. Generating Micro/Nanoparticle and Hybrid Micro/Nanoparticle- Nanowire Arrays on a Micropillar Surface -- 8.6. Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- Index.