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Corona Treatment for High-Throughput, Layer-by-Layer Nano-Transfer Molding

April 2, 2019
Author(s)
Michael Deagan, Edwin Chan, Linda S. Schadler, Chaitanya Ullal
Corona discharge treatment offers a facile, robust, and scalable technique for adhesion promotion in nano-transfer molding. In contrast to conventional plasma treatment, which requires vacuum operation, corona treatment at ambient pressure enabled

Influence of Knot Complexity on Glass-Formation in Ring Polymer Melts

March 13, 2019
Author(s)
Luis F. Vargas Lara, Beatriz Pazmino, Jack F. Douglas
We perform molecular dynamic simulations on a coarse-grained polymer melt to study the dynamics of glass-formation in ring polymer melts of variable knot complexity. After generating melts of non-concatenated polymeric rings having a range of minimum

Raman Imaging of Surface and Sub-Surface Graphene Oxide in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Nanocomposites

March 1, 2019
Author(s)
Amber D. McCreary, Qi An, Aaron M. Forster, Kunwei Liu, Siyao He, Chris Macosko, Andreas Stein, Angela R. Hight Walker
The incorporation of nanofillers, such as graphene oxide (GO) into fiber reinforced polymer composites to improve their mechanical properties is a significant research area for a variety of industrial applications. However, to date there is no reliable

Targeting hMSC Response via Surface Carbonyl Groups, Contact Angle, and Protein Interactions

March 1, 2019
Author(s)
Max J. Lerman, Shinichiro Muramoto, Navein Arumugasaamy, Michael Van Order, Josephine Lembong, Anushka Gerald, John G. Gillen, John P. Fisher
Traditional 2D culture systems made of polystyrene (PS) require the addition of surface chemistry beyond the nominal phenyl groups present to facilitate and encourage cell adhesion. Determining the surface properties which enhance protein adhesion from

Lower critical solution temperature in polyelectrolyte coacervates

February 26, 2019
Author(s)
Samim Ali, Markus Bleuel, Vivek Prabhu
Model linear oppositely-charged polyelectrolyte complexes exhibit a lower critical solution temperature. The coexist-ence curves narrow with increasing monovalent salt concentration (Cs) that lowers the polymer concentration (Cp) in the polymer-rich phase

Identification of a mechanogenetic link between substrate stiffness and chemotherapeutic response in breast cancer

February 25, 2019
Author(s)
Brian G. Bush, Scott H. Medina, Emily Sevcik, Maggie Cam, Frank W. DelRio, Kaustav Nandy, Joel P. Schneider
Mechanical feedback from the tumor microenvironment regulates an array of processes underlying cancer biology. For example, increased stiffness of mammary extracellular matrix (ECM) drives malignancy and alters the phenotypes of breast cancer cells

Upstream vortex and elastic wave in the viscoelastic flow around a confined cylinder

January 28, 2019
Author(s)
Boyang Qin, Paul Salipante, Steven Hudson, Paulo E. Arratia
The viscoelastic flow past cylinder is a classic benchmark problem that is not completely understood. Using novel holographic particle velocimetry, we report two main discoveries of the elastic instability upstream of a single cylinder in confined channel

Uncertainty Quantification of Failure Probability and a Dynamic Risk Analysis of Decision Making for Maintenance of Ageing Infrastructure

January 2, 2019
Author(s)
Jeffrey T. Fong, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert, Dennis D. Leber, Paul A. Berkman, Robert E. Chapman
Risk, as the product of failure probability and failure consequence, has been estimated and applied by engineers and managers to help make critical decisions on (a) maintenance of ageing plants, and (b) planning of new infrastructure. For ageing plants

Hidden Hyperuniformity in Bottlebrush Polymer Melts

December 21, 2018
Author(s)
Alexandros Chremos, Jack F. Douglas
We show that the backbone chains of bottlebrush polymer melts exhibit a hidden hyperuniform packing over a wide temperature range above glass transition temperature. These findings open a venue for a practical design of hyperuniform polymeric materials for

The Effects of Long Range Sidechain Ordering on Backbone Ordering and Optoelectronic Properties in Semiconducting Polymers

December 12, 2018
Author(s)
Joshua H. Carpenter, Masoud Ghasemi, Eliot Gann, Indunil Angunawela, Samuel Stuard, Liang Yan, Earl RItchie, Brendan O'Connor, Dean DeLongchamp, Harald Ade
Molecular ordering and packing greatly impacts the electronic and optoelectronic properties of semiconducting polymers. Despite much prior effort, the competing or synergistic ordering of the sidechains and aromatic cores has never been fully researched

A simple and robust approach to reducing contact resistance in organic devices

December 3, 2018
Author(s)
Lamport Zachary, Katrina Barth, Hyunsu Lee, Martin Guthold, Iain McCulloch, John E. Anthony, Lee J. Richter, Eliot Gann, Dean DeLongchamp, Oana Jurchescu
Efficient injection of charge carriers from the contacts into the semiconductor layer is crucial for achieving high-performance organic devices. The potential drop necessary to accomplish this process yields a resistance associated with the contacts

Validation of Single Particle ICP-MS for Routine Measurements of Nanoparticle Size and Number Size Distribution

November 25, 2018
Author(s)
Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Premsagar P. Kavuri, Antonio M. Possolo, Natalia Farkas, Andras Vladar, Karen E. Murphy, Michael R. Winchester
Single particle inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (spICP-MS) is an emerging technique capable of measuring nanoparticle size and number concentration simultaneously, of metal-containing nanoparticles (NPs) at environmentally relevant levels

Tuning the Relaxation of Nano-Patterned Polymer Films with Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles: Observation of Entropy-Enthalpy Compensation

November 6, 2018
Author(s)
Sonal Bhadauriya, Xiaoteng Wang, Jack F. Douglas, Praveen Pitliya, Jianan Zhang, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Michael R. Bockstaller, Christopher Stafford, Alamgir Karim
Polymer films provide a versatile "plastic" material in which complex functional relief patterns can be imprinted with a resolution down to tens of nanometers. However, the utility of such patterned materials is limited by the tendency of imprinted
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