Surface modification of polymers: methods and applications

SK Nemani, RK Annavarapu… - Advanced Materials …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Low cost, controlled crystallinity, chemical, and mechanical stability enable application of
polymers in energy, water, electronics, and biomedical industries. Recent studies have …

Wrinkled interfaces: Taking advantage of surface instabilities to pattern polymer surfaces

J Rodriguez-Hernandez - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
The generation of nano-microstructured polymer film surfaces has been a challenge during
the last decades. Advances in the fabrication of structured polymer surfaces to obtain micro …

Instability, self-organization and pattern formation in thin soft films

R Mukherjee, A Sharma - Soft matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The free surface of a thin soft polymer film is often found to become unstable and self-
organizes into various meso-scale structures. In this article we classify the instability of a thin …

Wettability-patterned microchip for emerging biomedical materials and technologies

Y Li, BF Liu, X Zhang - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Microchip has long been studied and facilitated recent investigations in multiple biomedical
and material fields. The advances in functional materials triggered several leaps in the …

Electric field induced instability and pattern formation in thin liquid films

R Verma, A Sharma, K Kargupta, J Bhaumik - Langmuir, 2005 - ACS Publications
Electrostatic field induced instability, morphology, and patterning of a thin liquid film confined
between two electrodes with an air gap are studied on the basis of nonlinear 3D simulations …

Pattern formation by dewetting of polymer thin film

L Xue, Y Han - Progress in Polymer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
Strategies for the utilization of dewetting of polymer thin film to fabricate ordered patterns are
reviewed. After a brief introduction to the polymer thin film dewetting theory, simulation …

Controlling pattern formation in nanoparticle assemblies via directed solvent dewetting

CP Martin, MO Blunt, E Pauliac-Vaujour, A Stannard… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
We have achieved highly localized control of pattern formation in two-dimensional
nanoparticle assemblies by direct modification of solvent dewetting dynamics. A striking …

Control of morphology in pattern directed dewetting of thin polymer films

R Mukherjee, D Bandyopadhyay, A Sharma - Soft Matter, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate the creation of large area mesoscale structures by controlling the dewetting
pathways of thin polymer films on physically heterogeneous substrates comprising a two …

Mesoscale morphologies in polymer thin films

M Ramanathan, SB Darling - Progress in Polymer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
In the midst of an exciting era of polymer nanoscience, where the development of materials
and understanding of properties at the nanoscale remain a major R&D endeavor, there are …

Materials self-assembly and fabrication in confined spaces

M Ramanathan, II S Michael Kilbey, Q Ji… - Journal of Materials …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular assemblies have been mainly researched in open spaces for a long time.
However, recent research has revealed that there are many interesting aspects present …