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Quartz crystal microbalances. --- Physical measurements. --- Quantum dots. --- Photovoltaic cells --- Research.

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This book describes the physics of the second-generation quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), a fundamental method of analysis for soft matter at interfaces. From a device for measuring film thickness in vacuum, the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) has in the past two decades evolved into a versatile instrument for analyzing soft matter at solid/liquid and solid/gas interfaces that found applications in diverse fields including the life sciences, material science, polymer research, and electrochemistry. As a consequence of this success, the QCM is now being used by scientists with a wide variety of backgrounds to study an impressive diversity of samples, with intricate data analysis methods being elaborated along the way. It is for these practitioners of the QCM that the book is written. It brings across basic principles behind the technique and the data analysis methods in sufficient detail to be educational and in a format that is accessible to anyone with an undergraduate level knowledge of any of the physical or natural sciences. These principles concern the analysis of acoustic shear waves and build on a number of fundamental physical concepts which many users of the technique do not usually come across. They have counterparts in optical spectroscopy, electrical engineering, quantum mechanics, rheology, and mechanics, making this book a useful educational resource beyond the QCM itself.  The main focus is the physics of QCM, but as the book describes the behavior of the QCM when exposed to films, droplets, polymer brushes, particles, vesicles, nanobubbles, and stick-slip, it also offers insight into the behavior of soft matter at interfaces in a more general sense.

Physics. --- Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics. --- Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films. --- Physical Chemistry. --- Polymer Sciences. --- Acoustics. --- Chemistry, Physical organic. --- Polymers. --- Surfaces (Physics). --- Physique --- Polymères --- Acoustique --- Surfaces (Physique) --- Physical chemistry. --- Amorphous substances. --- Complex fluids. --- Materials --- Thin films. --- Surfaces. --- Quartz crystal microbalances. --- Piezoelectric quartz crystal microbalances --- Microbalances --- Piezoelectric devices --- Quartz crystals --- Chemistry, Physical organic --- Chemistry, Organic --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Physics --- Surface chemistry --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Polymere --- Polymeride --- Polymers and polymerization --- Macromolecules --- Materials—Surfaces. --- Polymers  . --- Chemistry, Theoretical --- Physical chemistry --- Theoretical chemistry --- Chemistry --- Complex liquids --- Fluids, Complex --- Amorphous substances --- Liquids --- Soft condensed matter --- Films, Thin --- Solid film --- Solid state electronics --- Solids --- Coatings --- Thick films

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Chemically and biologically functionalized piezoelectric sensors are attractive alternatives to surface-sensitive transducers due to their surpassing versatility. The fourth volume of the Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors includes a comprehensive theoretical treatment and current state-of-the art applications of the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). Interface circuits and the study of viscoelasticity and micromechanics as well as surface roughness with the QCM are discussed. The broad field of analytical applications of piezoelectric sensors is covered, which ranges from nucleic acid detection, immunosensors, protein-membrane interactions and monitoring cells by imprinted polymers to the viscoelastic response of living mammalian cells on QCM-resonators. Sophisticated derivatives of the classical QCM, such as rupture event scanning, the use of extraordinary high frequency crystals, and electrochemical QCM, clearly reveal the advantages of combining multiple techniques to realize new detection schemes on the basis of piezoelectric resonators.

Piezoelectric devices. --- Quartz crystal microbalances. --- Electrochemical sensors. --- Piezoelectric quartz crystal microbalances --- Microbalances --- Piezoelectric devices --- Quartz crystals --- Dielectric devices --- Ferroelectric devices --- Electrochemical detectors --- Chemical detectors --- Analytical biochemistry. --- Medical laboratories. --- Chemical engineering. --- Biochemistry. --- Biomedical engineering. --- Analytical Chemistry. --- Laboratory Medicine. --- Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering. --- Medical Biochemistry. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Medicine --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Chemistry, Industrial --- Engineering, Chemical --- Industrial chemistry --- Chemistry, Technical --- Metallurgy --- Diagnosis, Laboratory --- Health facilities --- Laboratories --- Analytic biochemistry --- Biochemistry --- Chemistry, Analytic --- Composition --- Bioanalytic chemistry --- Bioanalytical chemistry --- Analytical chemistry --- Analytical chemistry. --- Laboratory medicine. --- Medical biochemistry. --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Medical biochemistry --- Pathobiochemistry --- Pathological biochemistry --- Pathology --- Clinical medicine --- Clinical pathology --- Diagnostic laboratory tests --- Laboratory diagnosis --- Laboratory medicine --- Medical laboratory diagnosis --- Diagnosis --- Analysis, Chemical --- Analytic chemistry --- Chemical analysis --- Quartz crystal microbalances --- Piezoelectric polymer biosensors --- Electric resonators --- Chemistry, Technical. --- Clinical biochemistry. --- Biomedical Research. --- Industrial Chemistry. --- Laser. --- Research. --- Health Workforce --- Chemical technology --- Technical chemistry --- Technology --- Chemical engineering --- Biological research --- Biomedical research