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Probing the Interfacial Adhesion Strength in Compositional Libraries of Epoxy Films

May 1, 2006
Author(s)
Christopher Stafford, J Y. Kim, D Kawaguchi, Gareth Royston, Martin Chiang
We are developing a measurement platform, based on the edge lift-off test geometry, geared towards combinatorial and high-throughput (C&HT) assessment of interfacial reliability in thermally cured epoxy materials. A critical parameter space to be explored

Texture Measurements in Fiber-Oriented PMN-PT

April 9, 2006
Author(s)
Kristen H. Brosnan, G L. Messing, Richard J. Meyer, Mark D. Vaudin
Textured (1-x)(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3 (PMN-PT) ceramics obtained by the templated grain growth (TGG) process a significant fraction of the piezoelectric properties of the Bridgman growth single crystals at a fraction of the cost. These materials could have

Measuring the Modulus of Soft Polymer Networks via a Buckling-Based Metrology

April 1, 2006
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Wilder, Shu Guo, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Michael J. Fasolka, Christopher Stafford
We present a new method for measuring the modulus of soft polymer networks (E 10 MPa).This metrology utilizes compression-induced buckling of a sensor film applied to the surface of the specimen,where the periodic buckling wavelength, assessed rapidly by

High-Throughput Evaluation of Restorative Dental Polymers

March 31, 2006
Author(s)
Sheng Lin-Gibson, Forrest A. Landis, Nancy J. Lin
The effects of co-monomer composition and irradiation time on material properties and cell response were determined using high-throughput and combinatorial methods. 2-Dimensional gradient samples varying in monomer composition and light exposure time were

Failure of Glass Layers on Polymeric Substrates From Vickers Indentation

March 25, 2006
Author(s)
Herzl Chai, Brian R. Lawn
A study is made of median crack evolution in brittle coatings subjected to sharp contacts. A model bilayer system consisting of a glass plate bonded to a polycarbonate base, with a Vickers pyramid as indenter, is used to demonstrate the evolution in situ

Cellular Response to Phase-Separated Blends of Tyrosine-Derived Polycarbonate

March 1, 2006
Author(s)
L A. Bailey, Matthew Becker, J S. Stephens, Nathan D. Gallant, Christine M. Mahoney, N Washburn, Aarti Rege, J Kohn, Eric J. Amis
Tyrosine-derived polycarbonates are extremely promising degradable materials for use in orthpedic applications and two-dimensional thin films consisting of homopolymer and discrete compositional blends of the ethyl (DTE) and octyl (DTO) ester polycarbonate

Generating Thickness Gradients of Thin Polymer Films via Flow Coating

February 1, 2006
Author(s)
Christopher Stafford, Kristen Roskov, Thomas Epps, Michael J. Fasolka
Thickness is a governing factor in the behavior of films and coatings. To enable the high-throughputanalysis of this parameter in polymer systems, we detail the design and operation of a flow coater device for fabricating continuous libraries of polymer

Quantification of the Meniscus Effect in Adhesion Force Measurements

February 1, 2006
Author(s)
Jaroslaw Grobelny, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Doo-In Kim, Z C. Ying
Adhesion forces between a gold sphere and flat gold substrate are studied using atomic force microscopy in different environments. The pull-off force measured in vacuum is found to be a small fraction of that in ambient air or nitrogen atmosphere. In

Surfaces of Fluorinated Pyridinium Block-Copolymers with Enhanced Antibacterial Activity

January 19, 2006
Author(s)
Sitaraman Krishnan, R J. Ward, A Hexemer, K E. Sohn, K L. Lee, E R. Angert, Daniel A. Fischer, E J. Kramer, Christopher K. Ober
Polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpyridine) copolymers were quaternized with 1-bromohexane and 6-perfluorooctyl-1-bromohexane. Surfaces prepared from these polymers were characterized by contact angle measurements, near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure

Wake Fields in the Electron Gas Including Transverse Response

January 19, 2006
Author(s)
Eric J. Cockayne, Zachary H. Levine
Relativistic electrons have transverse electric fields comparable in magnitude to the longitudinal fields. We determine the relative effects of transverse and longitudinal fields of a moving point charge on the dielectric response of a uniform electron gas

First Principles Based Simulations of Relaxor Ferroelectrics

January 16, 2006
Author(s)
Benjamin P. Burton, Eric J. Cockayne, Silvia Tinte, U Waghmare
The phenomenology of Pb(B,B$ {\prime}$)O$_{3}$, perovskite based relaxor ferroelectrics is reviewed, with emphasis on the relationship between chemical short-range order and the formation of polar nanoregions in the temperature range between the freezing

Effect of Shear Flow on Multi-Component Polymer Mixtures

January 1, 2006
Author(s)
Charles C. Han, Yonghua Yao, C.L. Zhang, Erik K. Hobbie
There is considerable interest in the phase behavior of multi-component polymer mixtures, the so-called polymer blends, due to their broad technological importance in the plastics industry. Traditionally, quiescent conditions have been adopted for
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