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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Functional interfaces

Reinhardt, Matthias 28 March 2014 (has links)
Verankerte Polymere können die Funktionalität einer Oberfläche beeinflussen. Der Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit liegt auf der Untersuchung von Polymerbürsten aus Polyacrylsäure (PAA) und Poly(N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylat) (PDMAEMA). Auf Oberflächen, die mit PAA Bürsten beschichtet sind, können Proteine im nativen Zustand immobilisiert werden. Für PDMAEMA ist eine Reaktion auf externe Reize bekannt. So kann dessen untere kritische Lösungstemperatur (LCST) zur Einstellung der Hydrophobizität von Oberflächen verwendet werden. Erstmalig im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde untersucht, wie sich hydrostatischer Druck von bis zu 1000 bar auf die Funktionalität der verwendeten Polymerbürsten auswirkt. Aus Diblock-Kopolymeren wurden Langmuir-Filme unterschiedlicher Ankerdichte mit der Langmuir-Schäfer Technik auf feste Substrate übertragen. Die Funktionalität der PAA Bürsten wurde vor und nach der Adsorption von Rinderserumalbumin (BSA) in gepufferter D2O-Lösung mit Hilfe der Neutronenreflektometrie (NR) bei 1 bar und 900 bar an der fest-flüssig Grenzfläche untersucht. Es wurden Volumenfraktionsprofile der PAA Bürste und adsorbierten BSA extrahiert, woraus sich eine lineare Abhängigkeit zwischen Ankerdichte und Menge an adsorbiertem Protein feststellen ließ. Erhöhung des hydrostatischen Druckes auf 900 bar veränderte weder die PAA Volumenprofile noch die Immobilisierung von BSA. Die PDMAEMA Bürsten wurden mittels NR bei Temperaturen von 20-60 °C und Drücken von 1-1000 bar untersucht. Zur Analyse der Daten wurde ein neuartiges Dichteprofil-Modell verwendet. Temperaturerhöhung führt zur stetigen Abnahme der Bürstendicke. Dies lässt sich durch den LCST induzierten Phasenübergang der Polymere vom hydrophilen in einen hydrophoben Zustand erklären. Es wurde gefunden, dass eine Erhöhung des hydrostatischen Druckes diesem Prozess entgegenwirkt. Strukturänderungen der Polymerbürsten bei Erhöhung der Temperatur um 10 K ließen sich durch Erhöhung des Druckes um 1000 bar rückgängig machen. / The functionality of an interface can be modified by polymer brushes. The focus of this work is on brushes of either polyacrylic acid (PAA) or poly(N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA). PAA brushes provide a soft interface that prevents the denaturation of adsorbed proteins. PDMAEMA is known to respond to external stimuli. The lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of PDMAEMA can be used to tune the hydrophobicity of the interface with temperature. For the first time, the effect of elevated hydrostatic pressure, up to 1000 bar, on the functionality of these systems is investigated. Planar PAA and PDMAEMA brushes are prepared from precursor diblock copolymer Langmuir layers with varied grafting density utilizing the Langmuir-Schäfer transfer technique. For solvent-swollen PAA brushes, neutron reflectivity (NR) measurements are conducted at the solid-liquid interface after incubation in buffered D2O and after the adsorption of bovine serum albumin (BSA) from the aqueous liquid phase at 1 bar and 900 bar. Detailed volume fraction profiles of the PAA brush and adsorbed BSA proteins are extracted. The amount of adsorbed BSA is found to scale linearly with grafting density. An elevated hydrostatic pressure of 900 bar is found to have no impact on the structure of the PAA brush and its capability to bind BSA proteins. The PDMAEMA brushes are investigated by NR at the solid-liquid interface in a temperature range of 20 to 60 °C for hydrostatic pressures from 1 to 1000 bar. A novel theoretical model of the brush density profile is used to fit the experimental NR data. Increasing the temperature causes a continuous decrease of the polymer brush thickness due to a hydrophobic coil to globule transition of the polymer chains when crossing the LCST. Hydrostatic pressure is found to act antagonistic to temperature. The hydrophobic collapse of the PDMAEMA brush caused by a temperature increase of 10 K is counterbalanced by a pressure increase of 1000 bar.
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Characterization of heterogeneous diffusion in confined soft matter

Täuber, Daniela 26 October 2011 (has links) (PDF)
A new method, probability distribution of diffusivities (time scaled square displacements between succeeding video frames), was developed to analyze single molecule tracking (SMT) experiments. This method was then applied to SMT experiments on ultrathin liquid tetrakis(2-ethylhexoxy)silane (TEHOS) films on Si wafer with 100 nm thermally grown oxide, and on thin semectic liquid crystal films. Spatial maps of diffusivities from SMT experiments on 220 nm thick semectic liquid crystal films reveal structure related dynamics. The SMT experiments on ultrathin TEHOS films were complemented by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). The observed strongly heterogeneous single molecule dynamics within those films can be explained by a three-layer model consisting of (i) dye molecules adsorbed to the substrate, (ii) slowly diffusing molecules in the laterally heterogeneous near-surface region of 1 - 2 molecular diameters, and (iii) freely diffusing dye molecules in the upper region of the film. FCS and SMT experiments reveal a strong influence of substrate heterogeneity on SM dynamics. Thereby chemisorption to substrate surface silanols plays an important role. Vertical mean first passage times (mfpt) in those films are below 1 µs. This appears as fast component in FCS autocorrelation curves, which further contain a contribution from lateral diffusion and from adsorption events. Therefore, the FCS curves are approximated by a tri-component function, which contains an exponential term related to the mfpt, the correlation function for translational diffusion and a stretched exponential term for the broad distribution of adsorption events. Lateral diffusion coefficients obtained by FCS on 10 nm thick TEHOS films, thereby, are effective diffusion coefficients from dye transients in the focal area. They strongly depend on the substrate heterogeneity. Variation of the frame times for the acquisition of SMT experiments in steps of 20 ms from 20 ms to 200 ms revealed a strong dependence of the corresponding probability distributions of diffusivities on time, in particular in the range between 20 ms and 100 ms. This points to average dwell times of the dye molecules in at least one type of the heterogeneous regions (e.g. on and above silanol clusters) in the range of few tens of milliseconds. Furthermore, time series of SM spectra from Nile Red in 25 nm thick poly-n-alkyl-methacrylate (PnAMA) films were studied. In analogy to translational diffusion, spectral diffusion (shifts in energetic positions of SM spectra) can be studied by probability distributions of spectral diffusivities, i.e. time scaled square energetic displacements. Simulations were run and analyzed to study contributions from noise and fitting uncertainty to spectral diffusion. Furthermore the effect of spectral jumps during acquisition of a SM spectrum was investigated. Probability distributions of spectral diffusivites of Nile Red probing vitreous PnAMA films reveal a two-level system. In contrast, such probability distributions obtained from Nile Red within a 25 nm thick poly-n-butylmethacrylate film around glass transition and in the melt state, display larger spectral jumps. Moreover, for longer alkyl side chains a solvent shift to higher energies is observed, which supports the idea of nanophase separation within those polymers.
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Characterization of heterogeneous diffusion in confined soft matter

Täuber, Daniela 20 October 2011 (has links)
A new method, probability distribution of diffusivities (time scaled square displacements between succeeding video frames), was developed to analyze single molecule tracking (SMT) experiments. This method was then applied to SMT experiments on ultrathin liquid tetrakis(2-ethylhexoxy)silane (TEHOS) films on Si wafer with 100 nm thermally grown oxide, and on thin semectic liquid crystal films. Spatial maps of diffusivities from SMT experiments on 220 nm thick semectic liquid crystal films reveal structure related dynamics. The SMT experiments on ultrathin TEHOS films were complemented by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). The observed strongly heterogeneous single molecule dynamics within those films can be explained by a three-layer model consisting of (i) dye molecules adsorbed to the substrate, (ii) slowly diffusing molecules in the laterally heterogeneous near-surface region of 1 - 2 molecular diameters, and (iii) freely diffusing dye molecules in the upper region of the film. FCS and SMT experiments reveal a strong influence of substrate heterogeneity on SM dynamics. Thereby chemisorption to substrate surface silanols plays an important role. Vertical mean first passage times (mfpt) in those films are below 1 µs. This appears as fast component in FCS autocorrelation curves, which further contain a contribution from lateral diffusion and from adsorption events. Therefore, the FCS curves are approximated by a tri-component function, which contains an exponential term related to the mfpt, the correlation function for translational diffusion and a stretched exponential term for the broad distribution of adsorption events. Lateral diffusion coefficients obtained by FCS on 10 nm thick TEHOS films, thereby, are effective diffusion coefficients from dye transients in the focal area. They strongly depend on the substrate heterogeneity. Variation of the frame times for the acquisition of SMT experiments in steps of 20 ms from 20 ms to 200 ms revealed a strong dependence of the corresponding probability distributions of diffusivities on time, in particular in the range between 20 ms and 100 ms. This points to average dwell times of the dye molecules in at least one type of the heterogeneous regions (e.g. on and above silanol clusters) in the range of few tens of milliseconds. Furthermore, time series of SM spectra from Nile Red in 25 nm thick poly-n-alkyl-methacrylate (PnAMA) films were studied. In analogy to translational diffusion, spectral diffusion (shifts in energetic positions of SM spectra) can be studied by probability distributions of spectral diffusivities, i.e. time scaled square energetic displacements. Simulations were run and analyzed to study contributions from noise and fitting uncertainty to spectral diffusion. Furthermore the effect of spectral jumps during acquisition of a SM spectrum was investigated. Probability distributions of spectral diffusivites of Nile Red probing vitreous PnAMA films reveal a two-level system. In contrast, such probability distributions obtained from Nile Red within a 25 nm thick poly-n-butylmethacrylate film around glass transition and in the melt state, display larger spectral jumps. Moreover, for longer alkyl side chains a solvent shift to higher energies is observed, which supports the idea of nanophase separation within those polymers.

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