Nanoscience and nanotechnology are tremendously increasing fields of research that aim at
producing, characterizing and understanding nanoobjects and assemblies of nanoobjects …

The enhancement of surface sensitivity by grazing incidence geometry facilitates the
investigation of nanostructures in thin films and at surfaces. The technique provides …

An anomaly in differential scanning calorimetry has been reported in a number of metallic
glass materials in which a broad exothermal peak was observed between the glass and …

We present the upgrade and present status of the ultrasmall-angle x-ray scattering (USAXS)
beamline BW4 at the Hamburg Synchrotronstrahlungslabor. In order to extend the …

Thin polystyrene (PS) films on top of silicon substrates are a frequently investigated model
system in the framework of unstable films. However, with respect to stability the various …

The dewetting of thin polymer films and the resulting pattern formation are reviewed and
previewed. Being of crucial importance for various applications, the destabilization of an …

In thin film geometry, the interplay between dewetting and phase separation or microphase
separation controls the morphology of the polymeric structures resulting on a solid support …

We used grazing-incidence small-angle neutron scattering (GISANS) to probe the depth-
dependent orientation of self-assembled morphologies of block copolymers. A hydrophobic …

We investigated a gradient of nanometer-sized, self-assembled gold clusters on top of a thin
polymer film. Using an advanced characterization method for gradient surfaces and thin …

The morphology, phase separation, instability and dewetting of Polymer dispersed liquid
crystal (PDLC) thin film comprising of nematic liquid crystal, 4-n-pentyl-4ʹ-cyanobiphenyl …