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Assembly And Deformation Of Amphiphilic Copolymers And Networks At Fluid Interfaces, Jinhye Bae
Assembly And Deformation Of Amphiphilic Copolymers And Networks At Fluid Interfaces, Jinhye Bae
Doctoral Dissertations
Surface tension generally plays a negligible role on macroscopic scales, but it is often the dominant force on nanometer to micrometer length-scales. The efforts of this dissertation are mainly focused on understanding the role that surface tension plays on sub-millimeter scale objects, especially on soft material systems, and how to utilize this phenomenon to assemble and deform objects. This dissertation addresses several phenomena of nano-and micron-sized objects at fluid interfaces. For nano-scale objects, amphiphilic block copolymer chains were used to explore interfacial behaviors due to their enhanced stability, mechanical properties, and tunability compared to other interfacially active materials such as …