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 …

This review deals with a variety of the processes proceeding in polymer blends at the
interface with solids. By the contact of a polymer blend with a solid surface, the …

The development in the area of surface modification of polymeric synthetic membranes
since 2000 is reviewed. Many patents, articles, and reviews have been written on the …

Strategies for the utilization of phase separation to generate ordered pattern in polymer thin
film are reviewed. First, the fundamental theory and factors influencing phase separation in …

The film thickness dependence of surface structure for immiscible polystyrene/poly (methyl
methacrylate)(PS/PMMA) films was investigated on the basis of atomic force microscopic …

Forced modulation scanning force microscopic (SFM) and lateral force microscopic (LFM)
measurements of the monodisperse polystyrene (PS) films were carried out at 293 K in order …

Phase-separated polymer blend films are an important class of functional materials with
numerous technological applications in solar cells, catalysis, and biotechnology. These …

Films of polystyrene (PS) and poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) blends of two different
thicknesses have been examined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and atomic …

This handbook brings together, under a single cover, all aspects of the chemistry, physics,
and engineering of surfaces and interfaces of materials currently studied in academic and …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM), neutron reflection (NR) and secondary ion mass
spectroscopy (SIMS) are used to examine phase separation in symmetrically segregating …