This book features comprehensive explanations from the classical theory of high-energy particle
interactions with matter to their use for a novel nanofabrication technique for various organic
soft materials. Potential readers include scientists and engineers in both academia and
industry as well as students of materials science nanotechnology and nuclear power
engineering. Readers will learn about the historical research background of radiation chemistry
and interactions of an accelerated particle with matter and then move on to recent research
topics having to do with nanofabrication of soft materials by using single charged particles
with high energy. Target materials of the highlighted novel technique include proteins
thermo-responsive and photo-responsive polymers semiconducting polymers and even small
organic molecules. The descriptions of these various newly developed nanomaterials will
interest a broad spectrum of readers and provide them with a new perspective. The many
conceptual illustrations and microscopic images of nanomaterials that are included will help
readers to easily understand the contents of the book.
