Free AFM webinars from Park Systems

Park Systems is offering a new free webinar series titled “Materials Matter” by Dr. Rigoberto Advincula, Professor, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and editor-in-chief of MRS Communications, Materials Research Society.

 

A new webinar covering leading edge developments in Materials Science Research and applications using AFM will be presented every third Wed of the month at 12pm EST for the entire year.

 

The free webinar series is designed to help researchers understand leading edge developments in Materials Science Research and applications using AFM.

 

As Advincula highlights, the Park AFM can be used to probe polymer brushes and characterize morphology.

 

"Park AFM has developed a number of tools and techniques to probe these surfaces including electrostatic mode, lateral force microscopy, current sensing AFM, and indentation methods to enable elucidation of structure-composition-property relationship in these films,” he says.

 

Since coatings are very important in industrial applications of materials for protecting, packaging, and labelling, it is important to develop smart coatings that go into various products that enhance performance.

 

Bulk coatings can come in the form of paint or protective coatings.

 

On the other hand, ultra thin or even layered coatings are important in methods for makings flexible electronics, display devices, solid state devices, and sensors.

 

The grafting of polymers and substrate enabled surface modification allow nanostructuring based on composition and the ability to stretch the chain perpendicular to the grafting substrate.

 

Polymer brushes indicate high grafting density on surfaces, whether it is flat substrate surfaces or irregular and spherical objects.

 

“The use of surface probe methods enables researchers to gain a better understanding of the effect of polymer density on the behaviour - even stimuli-responsive behaviour of the brushes,” says Advincula. “The webinar will demonstrate the use of modified techniques to enhance surface probe measurements which can be built into the tip design or the experimental design.”

 

To learn more about Polymer Brushes, register for the webinar and the complete series of exciting Material Science Webinars in 2019 here.