Thesis (M.Eng.). / Written for the Dept. of Chemical Engineering. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/04/12). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. / Committee Chair: Hess, Dennis W.; Committee Member: Henderson, Cliff L.; Committee Member: Hunt, William D.; Committee Member: Meredith, J. Carson; Committee Member: Prausnitz, Mark R.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

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High aspect ratio polymeric micro-patterns are ubiquitous in many fields ranging from sensors, actuators, optics, fluidics and medical. Second generation PDMS molds are replicated against first generation silicon molds created by deep reactive ion etching. In order to ensure successful demolding, the silicon molds are coated with a thin layer of C[subscript 4]F[subscript 8] plasma polymer to reduce the adhesion force. Peel force and demolding status are used to determine if delamination is successful. Response surface method is employed to provide insights on how changes in coil power, passivating time and gas flow conditions affect plasma polymerization of C[subscript 4]F[subscript 8]. / Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1994. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-99).

Plasma polymerization was used to produce thermoresponsive, hydrogel films of N-Isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) in a single step. Through variation of reactor conditions such as deposition pressure and substrate temperature, physicochemical properties of the hydrogel films such as crosslink density and thus swelling could be controlled. Chemical bonding structures in plasma polymerized NIPAAm were studied using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). Contact angle goniometry and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring were used to confirm the existence of a hydrophilic-hydrophobic transition in plasma polymerized NIPAAm thin films, analogous to the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) transition in linear, uncrosslinked chains. Hydrogen bonding in NIPAAm thin films was found to control the moisture uptake capacity; films prepared at higher substrate temperatures and lower reactor pressures, and hence believed to possess greater crosslink density, showed the highest moisture uptake capacity in ambient humidity. Free volume characteristics of NIPAAm thin films were studied using Doppler broadening energy spectroscopy (DBES). Furthermore, a novel, electrophoretic procedure was conceived to incorporate biomolecules such as antibodies in plasma polymerized NIPAAm films for use as sensing layers in vapor phase, surface acoustic wave sensors.