Structure and Dynamics in Polymer Thin Films

Presentations

• Unique refractive index and thickness values for polymer films via ellipsometry

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:00 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Alan R. Esker

    • Virginia Tech Department of Chemistry (0212) Blacksburg, VA 24061
    • Department of Chemistry (0212), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061
    • Macromolecules \& Interfaces Institute, Department of Chemistry (0212), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
    • Department of Chemistry (0212), Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061
    • Department of Chemistry (0212), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061

  • Ufuk Karabiyik

  • Min Mao

    • Virginia Tech, Department of Chemistry (0212), Blacksburg, VA 24061

  • Sushil Satija

    • Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
    • Center for Neutron Research, NIST

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• Watching How Molecules Orient in a Surface Forces Apparatus, Using Confocal Raman Spectroscopy

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:12 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Shan Jiang

    • UIUC, Materials Science and Engineering Department

  • Minsu Kim

    • UIUC, Physics Department

  • Sung-Chul Bae

  • Steve Granick

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Dept. of Materials Science \& Engineering, of Physics, of Chemistry, and of Chemical \& Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC
    • Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, of Chemistry, of Physcis, University of Illinois
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • UIUC, Materials Science and Engineering Department
    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, of Chemistry, of Physics, and of Chemical \& Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC
    • Departments of Chemistry and of Material Science, University of Illinois

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• Polymer dynamics at local scales: origin of ripples formation

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:24 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Robert Szoszkiewicz

    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

  • Takashi Okada

    • School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

  • Enrico Gnecco

    • Institute of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

  • William King

    • School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

  • Seth Marder

    • School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

  • Elisa Riedo

    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

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• Probing surface relaxation of polystyrene films using gold nano-particles

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:36 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Zahra Fakhraai

    • Physics Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Canada

  • James Forrest

    • University of Waterloo
    • Physics Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Canada

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• Grazing-incidence x-ray scattering studies on surface melting in ultrathin polymer films

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:48 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • T. Koga

  • Y. Wang

  • M. Rafailovich

  • J. Sokolov

    • Stony Brook University

  • A. Tikhonov

  • D. Schultz

  • M. Lee

    • University of Chicago

  • M. Tolan

    • Dortmund University

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• The Tg-Nanoconfinement Effect and the Relaxation of Residual Stresses in Spin-Coated Films of Polystyrene and Styrene-Containing Copolymers: Characterization by Intrinsic Fluorescence.

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:00 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Manish K. Mundra

  • Christopher J. Ellison

  • Ross Behling

  • John M. Torkelson

    • Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3120
    • Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208

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• Dynamics of very thin polymer films on supported surface

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:12 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Chunhua Li

    • State University of New York at Stony Brook

  • Hyunjung Kim

    • Sogang University, Korea

  • Jun Jiang

  • Clive Li

  • Tadanori Koga

    • State University of New York at Stony Brook

  • Laurence Lurio

    • Northern Illinois University

  • Sunil Sinha

    • University of California San Diego

  • Jonathan Sokolov

  • Miriam Rafailovich

    • State University of New York at Stony Brook

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• The Distribution of Tgs in Thin and Ultrathin Methacrylate-Based Polymer Films: Percolation of Free Surface and Interface Effects over Tens and Hundreds of Nanometers.

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:24 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Rodney D. Priestley

    • Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208

  • Manish K. Mundra

  • Perla Rittigstein

  • Linda J. Broadbelt

  • John M. Torkelson

    • Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3120
    • Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208

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• Dynamics of Polymer Thin Film Mixtures

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:36 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Brian M. Besancon

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

  • Peter Green

    • Department of Material Science and Engineering, Applied Physics, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan

  • Christopher L. Soles

    • NIST
    • NIST Polymers Division

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• Dynamics of Block copolymer films

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:48 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Hyunjung Kim

    • Dept. of Physics and Interdiscplinary Program of Integrated Biotechnology, Sogang University, Korea

  • Heeju Lee

  • Young Joo Lee

    • Dept. of Physics, Sogang University, Korea

  • Zhang Jiang

  • Sunil Sinha

    • Dept. of Physics, UC San Diego and LANSCE

  • Xuesong Jiao

    • Northern Illinois University

  • Adrian Ruehm

    • Max Planck Institute for Metal Research, Germany

  • S. G. J. Mochrie

    • Yale Univ.

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• Conformational Anisotropy and the Glass Transition in Polymer Thin Films

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:00 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Folusho Oyerokun

    • UCSB

  • Anna Cavallo

    • Uni-Mainz

  • Marcus Mueller

    • Uni-Gottingen

  • Kenneth Schweizer

    • UIUC

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• Radial Thickness Profiles of Spincoated Thickness Gradient Films

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:12 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Monika Michalek

  • Bernie Nickel

  • John Dutcher

    • University of Guelph

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• Internal Phase Separation Induces Dewetting in Multicomponent Polymer Films

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:24 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Hyun-joong Chung

    • MSE and LRSM, U. of Pennsylvania

  • Russell J. Composto

    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
    • MSE and LRSM, U. of Pennsylvania

  • Kohji Ohno

  • Takeshi Fukuda

    • ICR, Kyoto U.

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• Dewetting Morphology and Dynamics of Ordered Symmetric Block Copolymer Films: Stability of Nanoscopic Liquid Bilayers

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:36 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Matthew J. Farrar

  • Andrew B. Croll

  • Kari Dalnoki-Veress

    • Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University

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• Interfacial segregation and micellization of hydrogen bonding copolymers

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:48 AM – March 15, 2006, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Michelle Lefebvre

  • Murat Guvendiren

  • Monica Olvera de la Cruz

    • Northwestern University
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

  • Kenneth Shull

    • Northwestern University
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

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