Polymer Surfaces in Motion: Unconventional Patterning Methods

✍ Scribed by Juan Rodríguez-Hernández, Carlos Drummond (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pattern formation is a fascinating and challenging aspect in polymer science. This book describes a number of unconventional approaches developed to control the morphology of polymer surfaces and materials, from random or simple patterns to complex structures. Specialists provide an up-to-date and complete overview of each technique in their respective field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Nonconventional Methods for Patterning Polymer Surfaces....Pages 1-21
From Holes to Drops to Toroids: Conditions for the Transcription of Surface Patterns into Three-Dimensional Morphologies via Rim Instabilities in the Course of Dewetting....Pages 23-42
Directing Convection to Pattern Thin Polymer Films: Coffee Rings....Pages 43-71
Nanopatterns Produced by Directed Self-Assembly in Block Copolymer Thin Films....Pages 73-97
Nanostructured Interfaces by Surface Segregation of Block Copolymers....Pages 99-142
Template Guided Structuration of Polymer Films....Pages 143-162
Electrohydrodynamic Lithography of Functional Soft Materials for Advanced Applications....Pages 163-182
Elastic Instability and Surface Wrinkling....Pages 183-200
Reaction-Diffusion Dynamics Induced Surface Instabilities....Pages 201-217
Breath Figures: Fabrication of Honeycomb Porous Films Induced by Marangoni Instabilities....Pages 219-256
Spontaneous Structuration of Hydrophobic Polymer Surfaces in Contact with Salt Solutions....Pages 257-272
Nanobubble-Assisted Nanopatterning....Pages 273-285
Future Trends of Unconventional Methods in Polymer Surface Patterning....Pages 287-289

✦ Subjects

Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings; Polymer Sciences; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films