We have investigated the influence of the adsorption process on the dewetting behavior of the linear polystyrene film （LPS）, the 3-arm star polystyrene film （3SPS） and the ring polystyrene film （RPS） on the sila...We have investigated the influence of the adsorption process on the dewetting behavior of the linear polystyrene film （LPS）, the 3-arm star polystyrene film （3SPS） and the ring polystyrene film （RPS） on the silanized Si substrate. Results show that the adsorption process greatly influences the dewetting behavior of the thin polymer films. On the silanized Si substrate, the 3SPS chains exhibit stronger adsorption compared with the LPS chains and RPS chains; as a result, the wetting layer forms more easily. For LPS films, with the decrease of annealing temperature, the kinetics of polymer film changes from exponential behavior to slip dewetting. As a comparison, the stability of 3SPS and RPS films switches from slip dewetting to unusual dewetting kinetic behavior. The adsorbed nanodroplets on the solid substrate play an important role in the dewetting kinetics by reducing the driving force of dewetting and increase the resistant force of dewetting. Additionally, Brownian dynamics （BD） simulation shows that the absolute values of adsorption energy （ε） gradually increase from linear polymer （-0.3896） to ring polymer （-0.4033） and to star polymer （-0.4264）, which is consistent with the results of our adsorption experiments.展开更多
The stability of ultrathin polymer films plays a crucial role in their technological applications.Here,we systematically investigated the influence of interfacial adsorption in physical aging and the stability of thin...The stability of ultrathin polymer films plays a crucial role in their technological applications.Here,we systematically investigated the influence of interfacial adsorption in physical aging and the stability of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process.We further identify the stability mechanism from the theory of thin film stability.Our results show that the aging temperature and film thickness can strongly influence the stability of thin PS films in acetone vapor.Physical aging can greatly improve the stability of thin polymer films when the aging temperature T_(aging1)>T_(g).A thinner PS film more quickly reaches a stable state via physical aging.At short aging time,the formation of the adsorbed layer can reduce the polar interaction;however,it slightly influences the stability of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process.At later aging stage,the conformational rearrangement of the polymer chains induced by the interfacial effect at the aging temperature Taging1 plays an important role in stabilizing the thin polymer films.However,at T_(aging2)<T_(g),the process of physical aging slightly influences the stability of the thin polymer films.The formation of the adsorbed layer at Taging2 can reduce the short-range polar interaction of the thin film system and cannot suppress the instability of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process.These results provide further insight into the stable mechanism of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process.展开更多
The swelling process of thin polystyrene films in quantity was studied in this paper using the in situ spec- troscopic ellipsometry. We systematically investigated the influence of film thickness on the swelling proce...The swelling process of thin polystyrene films in quantity was studied in this paper using the in situ spec- troscopic ellipsometry. We systematically investigated the influence of film thickness on the swelling process of thin polystyrene films. The results show that in the case of high Mw polystyrene（Mw=400000）, the curve of the swelling degree as a function of time discloses that the relaxation of the long polymer chains accompanies the diffusion of acetone molecules, The swelling process is via the Fickian relaxation mechanism. Both the values of the equilibrium swelling degree and the diffusion coefficient of acetone molecules in the polystyrene film decrease as the film thick- ness reduces under confinement. However, in the case of lowMw PS（Mw=4100）, the dewetting process is so fast be- fore the equilibrium of swelling that the whole swelling process cannot be observed.展开更多
An efficient interface modification is introduced to improve the performance of polymeric thin film transistors. This efficient interface modification is first achieved by 4-fluorothiophenol（4-FTP） self-assembled mo...An efficient interface modification is introduced to improve the performance of polymeric thin film transistors. This efficient interface modification is first achieved by 4-fluorothiophenol（4-FTP） self-assembled monolayers（SAM） to chemically treat the silver source–drain（S/D） contacts while the silicon oxide（SiO2） dielectric interface is further primed by either hexamethyldisilazane（HMDS） or octyltrichlorosilane（OTS-C8）. Results show that contact resistance is the dominant factor that limits the field effect mobility of the PTDPPTFT4 transistors. With proper surface modification applied to both the dielectric surface and the bottom contacts, the field effect mobilities of the bottom-gate bottom-contact PTDPPTFT4 transistors were significantly improved from 0.15 cm^2·V^-1·s^-1 to 0.91 cm^2·V^-1·s^-1.展开更多
Thin-film composite(TFC) reverse osmosis(RO) membranes are playing the dominating role in desalination.Tremendous efforts have been put in the studies on the polyamide selective layers. However, the effect of the subs...Thin-film composite(TFC) reverse osmosis(RO) membranes are playing the dominating role in desalination.Tremendous efforts have been put in the studies on the polyamide selective layers. However, the effect of the substrate layers is far less concerned. In this review, we summarize the works that consider the impacts of the substrates, including pore sizes, surface hydrophilicity, on the processes of interfacial polymerization and consequently on the morphologies of the active layers and on final RO performances of the composite membranes. All the works indicate that the pore sizes and surface hydrophilicity of the substrate evidently influence the RO performances of the composite membranes. Unfortunately, we find that the observations and understandings on the substrate effect are frequently varied from case to case because of the lack of substrates with uniform pores and surface chemistries. We suggest using track-etched membranes or anodized alumina membranes having relatively uniform pores and functionalizable pore walls as model substrates to elucidate the substrate effect.Moreover, we argue that homoporous membranes derived from block copolymers have the potential to be used as substrates for the large-scale production of high-performances TFC RO membranes.展开更多
A core feature of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks is crystallinity, but it remains challenging to gain their thin films with high crystallinity. Here, we presented growth of thin films of two-dimensional c...A core feature of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks is crystallinity, but it remains challenging to gain their thin films with high crystallinity. Here, we presented growth of thin films of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks with an average domain size of ~2.83 μm^(2) and maximum domain size of up to ~26.19 μm^(2) using amphiphilic glycine derivatives on water surface. We envisage that this work will inspire the growth of a wide variety of organic two-dimensional materials with high crystallinity and boost their structure property investigations.展开更多
Isocyanate-treated graphite oxides （iGOs） were well-dispersed into the polystyrene （PS） thin films and formed a novel network structure. With control in fabrication, an iGOs-web layer was horizontally embedded nea...Isocyanate-treated graphite oxides （iGOs） were well-dispersed into the polystyrene （PS） thin films and formed a novel network structure. With control in fabrication, an iGOs-web layer was horizontally embedded near the surface of the films and thus formed a composite slightly doped by iGOs. This work demonstrated that the iGOs network can remarkably depress the dewetting process in the polymer matrix of the composite, while dewetting often leads to rupture of polymer films and is considered as a major practical limit in using polymeric materials above their glass transition temperatures （Tg）. Via annealing the 50-120 nm thick composite and associated neat PS films at temperatures ranging from 35℃ to 70 ℃ above Tg, surface morphology evolution of the films was monitored by atomic force microscopy （AFM）. The iGOs-doped PS exhibited excellent thermal stability, i.e., the number of dewetting holes was greatly reduced and the long-term hole growth was fairly restricted. In contrast, the neat PS film showed serious surface fluctuation and a final rupture induced by ordinary dewetting. The method developed in this work may pave a road to reinforce thin polymer films and enhance their thermal stability, in order to meet requirements by technological advances.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.51473168,21234007,21674114,51503048,51573131 and 21374077)the grant of Guizhou Education University (No.107003001455)the Natural Science Foundation of Guizhou Province (No.QKHJC[2017]1137)
文摘We have investigated the influence of the adsorption process on the dewetting behavior of the linear polystyrene film （LPS）, the 3-arm star polystyrene film （3SPS） and the ring polystyrene film （RPS） on the silanized Si substrate. Results show that the adsorption process greatly influences the dewetting behavior of the thin polymer films. On the silanized Si substrate, the 3SPS chains exhibit stronger adsorption compared with the LPS chains and RPS chains; as a result, the wetting layer forms more easily. For LPS films, with the decrease of annealing temperature, the kinetics of polymer film changes from exponential behavior to slip dewetting. As a comparison, the stability of 3SPS and RPS films switches from slip dewetting to unusual dewetting kinetic behavior. The adsorbed nanodroplets on the solid substrate play an important role in the dewetting kinetics by reducing the driving force of dewetting and increase the resistant force of dewetting. Additionally, Brownian dynamics （BD） simulation shows that the absolute values of adsorption energy （ε） gradually increase from linear polymer （-0.3896） to ring polymer （-0.4033） and to star polymer （-0.4264）, which is consistent with the results of our adsorption experiments.
基金supported by the Science Challenge Project(No.TZ2018004)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2232019D3-10)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51473168,21674113,21334007,21790340)the Programs of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.QYZDY-SSW-SLH027,YJKYYQ20190084).
文摘The stability of ultrathin polymer films plays a crucial role in their technological applications.Here,we systematically investigated the influence of interfacial adsorption in physical aging and the stability of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process.We further identify the stability mechanism from the theory of thin film stability.Our results show that the aging temperature and film thickness can strongly influence the stability of thin PS films in acetone vapor.Physical aging can greatly improve the stability of thin polymer films when the aging temperature T_(aging1)>T_(g).A thinner PS film more quickly reaches a stable state via physical aging.At short aging time,the formation of the adsorbed layer can reduce the polar interaction;however,it slightly influences the stability of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process.At later aging stage,the conformational rearrangement of the polymer chains induced by the interfacial effect at the aging temperature Taging1 plays an important role in stabilizing the thin polymer films.However,at T_(aging2)<T_(g),the process of physical aging slightly influences the stability of the thin polymer films.The formation of the adsorbed layer at Taging2 can reduce the short-range polar interaction of the thin film system and cannot suppress the instability of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process.These results provide further insight into the stable mechanism of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process.
基金Supported by the National Natttral Science Foundation of China（Nos. 51503048, 21504018, 21234007, 51473168）, the Grant of Guizhou Education University, China（No. 107003001455） and the Grant of Science and Technology Department of Guizhou Province, China（No. QKH[2017] 1137）.
文摘The swelling process of thin polystyrene films in quantity was studied in this paper using the in situ spec- troscopic ellipsometry. We systematically investigated the influence of film thickness on the swelling process of thin polystyrene films. The results show that in the case of high Mw polystyrene（Mw=400000）, the curve of the swelling degree as a function of time discloses that the relaxation of the long polymer chains accompanies the diffusion of acetone molecules, The swelling process is via the Fickian relaxation mechanism. Both the values of the equilibrium swelling degree and the diffusion coefficient of acetone molecules in the polystyrene film decrease as the film thick- ness reduces under confinement. However, in the case of lowMw PS（Mw=4100）, the dewetting process is so fast be- fore the equilibrium of swelling that the whole swelling process cannot be observed.
基金Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CB328803)
文摘An efficient interface modification is introduced to improve the performance of polymeric thin film transistors. This efficient interface modification is first achieved by 4-fluorothiophenol（4-FTP） self-assembled monolayers（SAM） to chemically treat the silver source–drain（S/D） contacts while the silicon oxide（SiO2） dielectric interface is further primed by either hexamethyldisilazane（HMDS） or octyltrichlorosilane（OTS-C8）. Results show that contact resistance is the dominant factor that limits the field effect mobility of the PTDPPTFT4 transistors. With proper surface modification applied to both the dielectric surface and the bottom contacts, the field effect mobilities of the bottom-gate bottom-contact PTDPPTFT4 transistors were significantly improved from 0.15 cm^2·V^-1·s^-1 to 0.91 cm^2·V^-1·s^-1.
基金Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2015CB655301)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20150063)the Project of Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD)
文摘Thin-film composite(TFC) reverse osmosis(RO) membranes are playing the dominating role in desalination.Tremendous efforts have been put in the studies on the polyamide selective layers. However, the effect of the substrate layers is far less concerned. In this review, we summarize the works that consider the impacts of the substrates, including pore sizes, surface hydrophilicity, on the processes of interfacial polymerization and consequently on the morphologies of the active layers and on final RO performances of the composite membranes. All the works indicate that the pore sizes and surface hydrophilicity of the substrate evidently influence the RO performances of the composite membranes. Unfortunately, we find that the observations and understandings on the substrate effect are frequently varied from case to case because of the lack of substrates with uniform pores and surface chemistries. We suggest using track-etched membranes or anodized alumina membranes having relatively uniform pores and functionalizable pore walls as model substrates to elucidate the substrate effect.Moreover, we argue that homoporous membranes derived from block copolymers have the potential to be used as substrates for the large-scale production of high-performances TFC RO membranes.
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52061135103,52173296 and 51833011).
文摘A core feature of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks is crystallinity, but it remains challenging to gain their thin films with high crystallinity. Here, we presented growth of thin films of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks with an average domain size of ~2.83 μm^(2) and maximum domain size of up to ~26.19 μm^(2) using amphiphilic glycine derivatives on water surface. We envisage that this work will inspire the growth of a wide variety of organic two-dimensional materials with high crystallinity and boost their structure property investigations.
基金the start-up fund of Y.G.from both University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint InstituteSchool of Materials Science and Engineering at SJTU+4 种基金the National Science Foundation of China for financial support through the General Program(No.2157408)the foundation of Shanghai Sailing Plan(No,16YF1406100)the National Youth 1000 Talent Program of Chinathe Shanghai 1000 Talent Planthe Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,State Education Ministry of China
文摘Isocyanate-treated graphite oxides （iGOs） were well-dispersed into the polystyrene （PS） thin films and formed a novel network structure. With control in fabrication, an iGOs-web layer was horizontally embedded near the surface of the films and thus formed a composite slightly doped by iGOs. This work demonstrated that the iGOs network can remarkably depress the dewetting process in the polymer matrix of the composite, while dewetting often leads to rupture of polymer films and is considered as a major practical limit in using polymeric materials above their glass transition temperatures （Tg）. Via annealing the 50-120 nm thick composite and associated neat PS films at temperatures ranging from 35℃ to 70 ℃ above Tg, surface morphology evolution of the films was monitored by atomic force microscopy （AFM）. The iGOs-doped PS exhibited excellent thermal stability, i.e., the number of dewetting holes was greatly reduced and the long-term hole growth was fairly restricted. In contrast, the neat PS film showed serious surface fluctuation and a final rupture induced by ordinary dewetting. The method developed in this work may pave a road to reinforce thin polymer films and enhance their thermal stability, in order to meet requirements by technological advances.
