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Modulus and Chemical Mapping of Multi-layer Coatings

October 1, 2008
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Chris A. Michaels, Li Piin Sung, Justin Lucas
Thermoplastic olefins (TPO) are polymeric materials utilized for interior and exterior automotive parts. These materials are often painted to enhance appearance and protect the soft TPO substrate. TPO materials posses a low surface energy due to the

Elastic Modulus Characterization of Nanocomposite Latex Coatings

September 24, 2008
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Stephanie S. Watson, Jonathan White
The elastic modulus of a polystyrene-butyl acrylate latex coating was measured using three different techniques: instrumented indentation, dynamic mechanical analysis, and tensile testing. The coating was formulated with 25 nm and 250 nm diameter TiO2

Interfacial Characterization of Multiple Layer Coatings on Thermoplastic Olefins (TPO)

May 30, 2008
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Chris A. Michaels, Justin Lucas, Li Piin Sung
Thermoplastic olefins (TPO) have made significant inroads as polymeric materials for interior and exterior automotive parts. Spray applied chlorinated polyolefins (CPO) are often used to improve paint adhesion to the low surface energy TPO substrates. The

Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposite Latex Films via Instrumented Indentation

September 6, 2006
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Stephanie S. Watson, Laura Johnson, Li Piin Sung
Inorganic particles, introduced into networked or glassy polymer films, have been used to increase the stiffness of films as a function of pigment loading. Latex films often contain inorganic pigments to increase the opaqueness of the film and to act as UV

The Development of a High-Throughput Axisymmetric Adhesion Test

February 13, 2005
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Wenhua Zhang, Christopher Stafford
There has been a growing effort to extend combinatorial and high throughput (C&HT) methods into many aspects of material science, including material property screening and materials discovery. In material science, a prevalent approach to combinatorial

A Multilens Measurement Platform for High-Throughput Adhesion Measurements

December 1, 2004
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Weiping Zhang, Christopher Stafford
There are few methods available for performing high-throughput adhesion measurements. Current high-throughput methodologies for measuring interfacial adhesion rely on serial or sequential testing of discrete or continuous libraries. Alternatively, we have

Energy Analysis of Multi-Lens Adhesion Measurements

March 1, 2004
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Christopher Stafford, Alamgir Karim
The NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC) has adapted the Johnson Kendall, and Roberts (JKR) adhesive contact test for the development of a high-throughput adhesion measurement platform. This technique utilizes an array of hemispherical lenses to

Combinatorial Techniques to Measure Curing of Epoxy Films

February 1, 2004
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, D Ragahavan, Naomi Eidelman, Alamgir Karim
Combinatorial methods were implemented in the investigation of time and temperature effects on epoxy curing by using three complementary techniques: axisymmetric adhesion testing, FT-IR reflectance mapping, and confocal fluorescence mapping to characterize

High-Throughput Adhesion Testing of Combinatorial Libraries With Multi-Lens Arrays

February 1, 2004
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Wenhua Zhang, Christopher Stafford
The NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC) has adapted the Johnson, Kendall, and Roberts (JKR) test to develop a high-throughput adhesion measurement platform. Traditionally, the JKR test utilizes a single hemispherical lens compressed against (loading)

Combinatorial Approach to Characterizing Epoxy Curing

January 1, 2004
Author(s)
Naomi Eidelman, D T. Raghavan, Aaron M. Forster, Eric J. Amis, Alamgir Karim
Three complementary techniques were used to follow the curing of a diglycidyl ether bisphenol A epoxy resin (DGEBA): FT-IR microspectroscopy, confocal microscopy, and axisymmetric adhesion testing. Each technique probes different characteristics of the