Durant cette thèse, nous avons d'abord développé un dispositif expérimental permettant de mesurer la dynamique de l'angle de contact avec une précision record de 0,01° sur 7 décades de vitesses de la ligne triple, gamme jamais atteinte auparavant. Pour la première fois, la résolution numérique des équations de lubrification a permis de déduire l'angle de contact à l'échelle microscopique de ces mesures macroscopiques, découplant donc le problème hydrodynamique multi-échelles de la physique de la ligne de contact à petite échelle. Avec ces outils, nous avons montré qu'une pseudo-brosse - une couche nanométrique de polymères - peut complètement piloter la dynamique, en produisant des hystérésis les plus faibles jamais mesurées (<0,07° !) et des surdissipations massives provenant de la nature visco-élastique de la couche. Cette étude ouvre la voie à la nano-rhéologie, permettant de sonder la dynamique extrêmement rapide (~100 ns) de polymères confinés à l'échelle nanométrique. Grâce à un travail collaboratif fructueux, nous avons ensuite développé un modèle permettant de décrire quantitativement et de façon unifiée la dissipation hydrodynamique, l'hystérésis et l'activation thermique. Enfin, beaucoup d'efforts ont été fournis pour la fabrication de surfaces aux défauts nanométriques contrôlés en taille, forme et concentration. La dynamique s'est révélée insensible à cette échelle de désordre, la présence des défauts n'affectant que l'hystérésis. Ces résultats ont été interprétés semi-quantitativement avec des lois d'échelle, et la caractérisation complète des défauts devrait permettre à terme de développer des modèles plus quantitatifs. / During this thesis, we first developed an experimental set-up to measure contact angle dynamics with a record precision of 0.01° over 7 decades of velocity of the triple line, a range never before attained. For the first time, numerically solving the lubrication equations has allowed us to deduce the contact angle at the microscopic scale from these macroscopic measurements, and thus enabled the multi-scale hydrodynamic problem to be disentangled from the physics of the contact line at small scales. With these tools we have shown that the dynamics can be completely piloted by a pseudo-brush -a nanometric layer of polymers-, producing the lowest ever reported hysteresis (<0.07°!) and giving rise to a huge source of dissipation originating from the viscoelasticity of the coating. This study points the way towards nano-rheology, to probe extremely fast dynamics (~100 ns) of polymers confined at the nano-scale. Thanks to a fruitful collaborative work, we then developed a model that provides a single quantitative framework to account for hydrodynamic dissipation, hysteresis and thermal activation. Finally, a great deal of effort has been made to produce nano-defects whose size, shape and density are controlled. The dynamics appears to be insensitive to this scale of disorder, and the presence of defects is observed to only modify the hysteresis. These results have been interpreted semi-quantitatively with scaling laws, and we expect that the complete characterization of the defects should eventually allow the development of more quantitative models.

Polymer brush patterns were prepared by a combination of electron beam induced damage in self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), creating a stable carbonaceous deposit, and consecutive self-initiated photografting and photopolymerization (SIPGP). This newly applied technique, reactive writing (RW), is investigated with 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane SAM (PF-SAM) on silicon oxide, which, when modified by RW, can be selectively functionalized by SIPGP. With the monomer N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA), we demonstrate the straightforward formation of polymer brush gradients and single polymer lines of sub-100 nm lateral dimensions, with high contrast to the PF-SAM background. The lithography parameters acceleration voltage, irradiation dose, beam current and dwell time were systematically varied to identify the optimal conditions for the maximum conversion of the SAM into a carbonaceous deposit. The results of this approach were compared to patterns prepared by carbon templating (CT) under analogous conditions, revealing a dwell time dependency, which differs from earlier reports. This new technique expands the range of CT by giving the opportunity to not only vary the chemistry of the created polymer patterns with monomer choice but also vary the chemistry of the surrounding substrate.

For the development of smart surfaces high attention is focused on stimuli-responsive polymers. Since type and rate of response to environmental stimuli can be regulated by chain length, composition, architecture and topology, polymer films offer a variety of opportunities to develop such stimuli-responsive surfaces. Here polymer brush surfaces designed for a controlled adsorption of proteins and a switchable activity of immobilized enzymes are presented. The work is focused on temperature as well as pH-sensitive binary brushes, consisting of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), and their swelling behavior as well as their protein adsorption affinity is compared to the corresponding homopolymer brushes. All polymer brushes are covalently grafted by ester bonds to an anchoring layer of poly(glycidyl methacrylate), that itself is grafted via ether bonds to a silicon surface. Methodical investigations of layer thickness and refractive index of the brushes in the swollen state and after protein adsorption are carried out with in-situ spectroscopic ellipsometry, varying the brush composition and the solution parameters pH, salt concentration and temperature. The ellipsometric findings are correlated to results of contact angle, atomic force microscopy and zeta-potential measurements as well as colorimetric assays of enzyme activities at the brush surface. Furthermore the swelling of PNIPAAm brushes and protein adsorption at PAA Guiselin brushes are investigated in more detail with attenuated total reflexion Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation, respectively.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第21124号 / 工博第4488号 / 新制||工||1697(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科高分子化学専攻 / (主査)教授 辻井 敬亘, 教授 山子 茂, 教授 竹中 幹人 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

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Une brosse de polymères est une matrice dense de macromolécules greffées à une surface donnée. Au-delà des brosses synthétiques réalisées en laboratoire, on trouve des exemples très variés dans la nature: un exemple emblématique est le glycocalyx endothélial, décorant la surface interne des vaisseaux sanguins des mammifères. L'interaction de cette structure avec le plasma et les cellules sous écoulement n'est encore que très partiellement explorée. La présente thèse propose, grâce à des simulations de "Dissipative Particle Dynamics", un modèle coarse-grained pour une analyse auto-cohérente d'une brosse polymérique dense sous écoulement parabolique. Cette étude mésoscopique met en évidence l'importance des effets collectifs entre molécules, entraînée par l'hydrodynamique, et propose des nouvelles interprétations à la phénoménologie du système brosse-écoulement. Des résultats préliminaires sont également produits pour l'interaction sous écoulement entre un objet mésoscopique déformable (prototype d'un globule rouge) et les polymères greffés. / Polymer brushes are dense matrices of grafted macromolecules. In addition to brushes finely designed in laboratory, various examples are offered by Nature, as the endothelial glycocalyx, decorating the lumen of mammalian blood vessels. The interaction of such network with the flowing plasma and cells is still partially unknown.The present thesis, by mean of Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulations, proposes a coarse-grained model for the self-consistent analysis of a dense polymer brush under parabolic flow. Our mesoscale investigation highlights the relevance of collective effects, driven by hydrodynamics, and proposes novel interpretations regarding the rich phenomenology of the brush-flow system.Preliminary results are also provided for the interplay between a mesoscopic deformable flowing object (prototype of a red blood cell) and the grafted polymers.

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Polymer brush patterns were prepared by a combination of electron beam induced damage in self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), creating a stable carbonaceous deposit, and consecutive self-initiated photografting and photopolymerization (SIPGP). This newly applied technique, reactive writing (RW), is investigated with 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane SAM (PF-SAM) on silicon oxide, which, when modified by RW, can be selectively functionalized by SIPGP. With the monomer N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA), we demonstrate the straightforward formation of polymer brush gradients and single polymer lines of sub-100 nm lateral dimensions, with high contrast to the PF-SAM background. The lithography parameters acceleration voltage, irradiation dose, beam current and dwell time were systematically varied to identify the optimal conditions for the maximum conversion of the SAM into a carbonaceous deposit. The results of this approach were compared to patterns prepared by carbon templating (CT) under analogous conditions, revealing a dwell time dependency, which differs from earlier reports. This new technique expands the range of CT by giving the opportunity to not only vary the chemistry of the created polymer patterns with monomer choice but also vary the chemistry of the surrounding substrate.