| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N37247/01 |
| Title: |
ROPA: UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROL OF DISPERSION-DRIVEN MORPHOLOGY IN MECHANICALLY CONFINED FILMS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Jones, Professor R |
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| Department: |
Physics and Astronomy |
| Organisation: |
University of Sheffield |
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ROPA |
| Starts: |
01 September 2000 |
Ends: |
31 August 2002 |
Value (£): |
99,259
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Manufacturing |
| Chemicals |
Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology |
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Thin polymer films confined by solid capping layers exhibit striking self-assembled morphologies that occur as a result of instabilities driven by long-ranged dispersion forces acting across the films. We propose to study these morphologies with two aims; to understand the basic physics behind the instability and thus open the way to use these measurements as a probe of dispersion forces in thin films of complex geometries, and to develop ways of controlling the perfection of order in the morphologies.
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http://www.shef.ac.uk |