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Chameleon Coatings: Adaptive Surfaces To Reduce Friction And Wear In Extreme Environments, Christopher Muratore, Andrey A. Voevodin

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Adaptive nanocomposite coating materials that automatically and reversibly adjust their surface composition and morphology via multiple mechanisms are a promising development for the reduction of friction and wear over broad ranges of ambient conditions encountered in aerospace applications, such as cycling of temperature and atmospheric composition. Materials selection for these composites is based on extensive study of interactions occurring between solid lubricants and their surroundings, especially with novel in situ surface characterization techniques used to identify adaptive behavior on size scales ranging from 10−10 to 10−4 m. Recent insights on operative solid-lubricant mechanisms and their dependency upon the ambient environment …

Patterned Well-Ordered Mesoporous Silica Films For Device Fabrication, Todd A. Crosby

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Developing effective methods of generating thin metal oxide films are important for sensing and separations applications. An obstacle to device fabrication is controlling the size and spatial orientation of domain level pores while retaining the ability to generate arbitrary device level patterns. Well-ordered hexagonally packed cylindrical pores were created by taking advantage of block copolymer self-assembly followed by selective condensation of silica precursors using supercritical carbon dioxide as the solvent. It was possible to control the pore size by choosing PEO-PPO-PEO (Pluronic® series) triblock copolymers of differing molecular weights.

These processes were then incorporated with conventional lithographic techniques to generate …

The Missing Link Crystallized From The Ionic Liquid 1-Ethyl-3-Methylimidazolium Tosylate: Bis-Aqua-(P-Toluenesulfonato-O)-Europium(Iii)-Bis-P-Toluenesulfonate Dihydrate, Si-Fu Tang, Anja V. Mudring

Anja V. Mudring

Bis-aqua-(p-toluenesulfonato-O)-europium(III)-bis-p-toluenesulfonate-dihydrate (1) was synthesized and structurally characterized. The crystal structure contains eight-coordinate europium(III) atoms. One oxygen atom from p-toluenesulfonate and seven aqua ligands form a slightly distorted square antiprism around Eu(III). A variety of O−H···O and intermolecular C−H···O hydrogen bonds link the asymmetric units into a two-dimensional layer, and these layers are further assembled into a three-dimensional supramolecular structure through intermolecular C−H···O hydrogen bonds and edge-to-face C−H···π interactions. The compound represents the structural missing link between the well-known lanthanide (Ln) tosylate (Tos) hydrates [(Ln(H2O)9](p-Tos)3(H2O) with noncoordinating tosylate and [Ln(H2O)6(p-Tos)2](p-Tos)2(H2O)3 where two tosylate groups coordinate to the lanthanide cation. It is …

Dysprosium-Based Ionic Liquid Crystals: Thermal, Structural, Photo- And Magnetophysical Properties, Anna Getsist, Benjamin Balke, Claudia Felser, Anja V. Mudring

Anja V. Mudring

[C12mim]3[DyBr6] (C12mim = 1-dodecyl-3-methylimidazolium) represents a new material with interesting luminescent behavior as well as mesomorphic and magnetic properties. The compound was found to show thermotropic liquid crystalline behavior and forms smectic mesophases which were investigated by hot-stage polarizing optical microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. The emission color of [C12mim]3[DyBr6] can be tuned from white to orange-yellow by the choice of the excitation wavelength. Sample excitation with λex = 366 nm leads to the blue-whitish luminescence from the imidazolium cation itself. With λex = 254 nm the common Dy(III) emission is observed which mainly arises from the 4F9/2 → 6H13/2 …

Temperature-Driven Mixing-Demixing Behavior Of Binary Mixtures Of The Ionic Liquid Choline Bis(Trifluoromethylsulfonyl)Imide And Water, Peter Nockeman, Koen Binnemans, Ben Thijs, Tatjana N. Parc-Vogt, Klaus Merz, Anja V. Mudring, Preethy Chirukandath Menon, Ravindran Nair Rajesh, George Cordoyianis, Jan Thoen, Jan Leys, Christ Glorieux

Anja V. Mudring

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Facile, Environmentally Friendly Fabrication Of Porous Silver Monoliths Using The Ionic Liquid N-(2-Hydroxyethyl)Ammonium Formate, Kai Richter, Tobias Backer, Anja V. Mudring

Anja V. Mudring

The environmentally friendly ionic liquid N-(2-hydroxyethyl)ammonium formate works as a reaction medium, reducing and templating agent in the mild microwave synthesis (5 min, 80 °C) of a macroporous silver framework from AgNO3.

A New Class Of Double Alkyl-Substituted, Liquid Crystalline Imidazolium Ionic Liquids—A Unique Combination Of Structural Features, Viscosity Effects, And Thermal Properties, Xinjiao Wang, Frank W. Heinemann, Mei Yang, Berthold U. Melcher, Melinda Fekete, Anja V. Mudring, Peter Wasserscheid, Karsten Meyer

Anja V. Mudring

1,3-Didodecylimidazolium salts have been prepared as first representatives of a new class of ionic liquid crystals (ILCs), showing thermotropic liquid crystalline behaviour in an extended temperature range below 70 °C. Remarkably strong non-Newtonian viscosity behaviour was found for the liquid-crystalline state of these ILCs.