Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-04-04T20:26:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ALANA PEREIRA RAMOS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPG-CEMat 2014..pdf: 2592489 bytes, checksum: 5e82ab454a76e1050981da9019ce8fec (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-04T20:26:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ALANA PEREIRA RAMOS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPG-CEMat 2014..pdf: 2592489 bytes, checksum: 5e82ab454a76e1050981da9019ce8fec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-07 / As ligas ternárias de Ti-Cu-Ni com memória de forma são conhecidas por apresentarem transformação de fase característica e propriedades semelhantes às ligas binárias Ti–Ni. Estudos realizados com ligas ricas em cobre mostraram que a adição de cobre nas ligas de Ti-Ni reduz a histerese de resposta do efeito de memória de forma e aumenta a TFA (tendência de formação de fase amorfa) ainda pouco estudada com altas porcentagens de cobre. Diante disso, este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a influência da velocidade de resfriamento nas temperaturas de transformação e na tendência de amorfização em fitas de Ti-CuNi resfriadas rapidamente. Para tanto, foram produzidas duas fitas Ti01 (Ti 43,5 Cu 37,8 Ni 18,7) e Ti02 (Ti 58,4 Cu 25,6 Ni 16,0) pelo processo melt spinning, variando-se a velocidade linear da roda em 21 m/s e 63 m/s. As amostras foram caracterizadas utilizando-se técnicas DSC, DR-X, RET e MO. Após essa caracterização pode-se afirmar que a técnica de melt spinning permite a produção de fitas muito finas, da ordem de micrômetros, em apenas uma etapa de processamento, assim como também foi possível a produção de fitas amorfas, do sistema Ti-Cu-Ni, sem nenhuma fase cristalina como observado na fita Ti01 e Ti 02 obtidas com velocidade linear de 63m/s. O tratamento térmico foi suficiente para remover todos os defeitos produzidos pelo processo de solidificação rápida e produzir um rápido crescimento de grão, favorecendo o aumento das temperaturas de transformação martensíticas e austeníticas. / Ternary alloys with shape memory Ti-Cu-Ni are known to submit a characteristic phase transformation and properties similar to the and Ti-Ni binary alloy . Studies with rich-copper alloys showed that the addition of copper in alloys Ti-Ni reduces the hysteresis response of the shape memory effect and increases the TFA (tendency to form amorphous phase) still little studied with high percentages of copper. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the influence of cooling rate on the transformation temperatures and on the tendency of Cu-Ni-Ti ribbons rapidly solidified. Therefore, two ribbons TI01 (Ti 43.5 Cu 37.8 Ni 18.7) and Ti02 (Ti 58.4 Cu 25.6 Ni 16.0) were produced by melt spinning process, varying the wheel linear velocity 21 m/s and 63 m/s. The samples were characterized using DSC, X-DR, RET and MO and techniques. Melt spinning technique allows the production of very thin ribbons of the order of microns, in one processing step, as it was also possible to produce amorphous ribbons, the system Ti-Cu-Ni, without crystalline phase as observed in TI01 and 02 Ti02 with linear velocity of 63m/s. The heat treatment was sufficient to remove all defects produced by rapid solidification process and produce a rapid grain growth, favoring the increase of temperatures of martensitic and austenitic transformation.

The work presented in this doctoral thesis employs colloidal suspensions to explore key open problems in condensed matter physics. Colloidal suspensions, along with gels, polymers, emulsions and liquid crystals belong to a family of materials that are collectively labelled as soft matter. Compositionally, colloidal suspensions consist of particles whose size ranges from a few nanometers to a few microns, dispersed in a solvent. A hallmark feature of these systems is that they exhibit Brownian motion, which makes them suitable for investigating statistical mechanical phenomena. Over the last fifteen years or so, colloids have been used extensively as model systems to shed light on a wide array of such phenomena typically observed in atomic systems. The chief reason why colloids are good mimics of atomic systems is their large size and slow dynamics. Unlike atomic systems, the dynamics of colloids can be probed in real time with single-particle resolution, which allows one to establish the link between macroscopic behavior and the microscopic processes that give rise to it. Yet another important feature is that colloidal systems exhibit various phases of matter such as crystals, liquids and glasses, which makes them versatile model systems that can probe a broad class of condensed matter physics problems. The work described in this thesis takes advantage of these lucrative features of colloidal suspensions to gain deeper insights into the physics of glass formation as well as shear-induced anisotropic grain growth in polycrystalline materials. The thesis is organized into two preliminary chapters, four work chapters and a concluding chapter, as follows. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to colloidal suspensions and reviews the chief theo-retical concepts regarding glass formation and grain boundary dynamics that form an integral part of subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 describes the experimental methods used for performing the work presented in the thesis and consists of two parts. The first part describes the protocols followed for synthesizing the size-tunable poly (N-isoprolypacrylamide) (PNIPAm) particles used in our study of shear-induced grain growth. The second part describes the instrumentation and techniques, such as holographic optical tweezers, confocal microscopy, rheology and Bragg diffraction microscopy, used to perform the measurements described in the thesis. Chapter 3 deals with our work on the dynamical facilitation (DF) theory of glass forma-tion. Despite decades of research, it remains to be established whether the transformation of a liquid into a glass is fundamentally thermodynamic or dynamic in origin. While obser-vations of growing length scales are consistent with thermodynamic perspectives, the purely dynamic approach of the DF theory has thus far lacked experimental support. Further, for glass transitions induced by randomly freezing a subset of particles in the liquid phase, theory and simulations support the existence of an underlying thermodynamic phase transi-tion, whereas the DF theory remains unexplored. In Chapter 3, using video microscopy and holographic optical tweezers, we show that dynamical facilitation in a colloidal glass-forming liquid grows with density as well as the fraction of pinned particles. In addition, we observe that heterogeneous dynamics in the form of string-like cooperative motion, which is consid-ered to be consistent with thermodynamic theories, can also emerge naturally within the framework of facilitation. These findings suggest that a deeper understanding of the glass transition necessitates an amalgamation of existing theoretical approaches. In Chapter 4, we further explore the question of whether glass formation is an intrinsi-cally thermodynamic or dynamic phenomenon. A major obstacle in answering this question lies in determining whether relaxation close to the glass transition is dominated by activated hopping, as espoused by various thermodynamic theories, or by the correlated motion of localized excitations, as proposed in the Dynamical Facilitation (DF) approach. In Chapter 4, we surmount this central challenge by developing a scheme based on real space micro-scopic analysis of particle dynamics and applying it to ascertain the relative importance of hopping and facilitation in a colloidal glass-former. By analysing the spatial organization of excitations within cooperatively rearranging regions (CRRs) and examining their parti-tioning into shell-like and core-like regions, we establish the existence of a crossover from a facilitation-dominated regime at low area fractions to a hopping-dominated one close to the glass transition. Remarkably, this crossover coincides with the change in morphology of CRRs predicted by the Random First-Order Transition theory (RFOT), a prominent ther-modynamic framework. Further, we analyse the variation of the concentration of excitations with distance from an amorphous wall and find that the evolution of these concentration profiles with area fraction is consistent with the presence of a crossover in the relaxation mechanism. By identifying regimes dominated by distinct dynamical processes, our study offers microscopic insights into the nature of structural relaxation close to the glass transi-tion. In Chapter 5, we extend our investigation of the glass transition to systems composed of anisotropic particles. The primary motivation for this is to bridge a long-standing di-vide between theories and simulations on one hand, and experiments on molecular liquids on the other. In particular, theories and simulations predominantly focus on simple glass-formers composed of spherical particles interacting via isotropic interactions. Indeed, even the prominent theory of Dynamical Facilitation has not even been formulated to account for anisotropic shapes or interactions. On the other hand, an overwhelming majority of liquids possess considerable anisotropy, both in particle shape as well as interactions. In Chapter 5, we mitigate this situation by developing the DF theory further and applying it to systems with orientational degrees of freedom as well as anisotropic attractive interactions. By analyzing data from experiments on colloidal ellipsoids, we show that facilitation plays a pivotal role in translational as well as orientational relaxation. Further, we demonstrate that the introduction of attractive interactions leads to spatial decoupling of translational and rotational facilitation, which subsequently results in the decoupling of dynamical het-erogeneities. Most strikingly, the DF theory can predict the existence of reentrant glass transitions based on the statistics of localized dynamical events, called excitations, whose duration is substantially smaller than the structural relaxation time. Our findings pave the way for systematically testing the DF approach in complex glass-formers and also establish the significance of facilitation in governing structural relaxation in supercooled liquids. In Chapter 6, we turn our attention away from the glass transition and address the problem of grain growth in sheared polycrystalline materials. The fabrication of functional materials via grain growth engineering implicitly relies on altering the mobilities of grain boundaries (GBs) by applying external fields. While computer simulations have alluded to kinetic roughening as a potential mechanism for modifying GB mobilities, its implications for grain growth have remained largely unexplored owing to difficulties in bridging the disparate length and time scales involved. In Chapter 6, by imaging GB particle dynamics as well as grain network evolution under shear, we present direct evidence for kinetic roughening of GBs and unravel its connection to grain growth in driven colloidal polycrystals. The capillary fluctuation method allows us to quantitatively extract shear-dependent effective mobilities. Remarkably, our experiments reveal that for sufficiently large strains, GBs with normals parallel to shear undergo preferential kinetic roughening resulting in anisotropic enhancement of effective mobilities and hence directional grain growth. Single-particle level analysis shows that the anisotropy in mobility emerges from strain-induced directional enhancement of activated particle hops normal to the GB plane. Finally, in Chapter 7, we present our conclusions and discuss possible future directions.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Chemistry) / Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) that usually affects the lungs leading to severe coughing, fever and chest pains. It was estimated that over 9.6 million people worldwide developed TB and 1.5 million died from the infectious disease of which 12 % were co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the year 2015. In 2016 the statistics increased to a total of 1.7 million people reportedly died from TB with an estimated 10.4 million new cases of TB diagnosed worldwide. The development of the efficient point-of-care systems that are ultra-sensitive, cheap and readily available is essential in order to address and control the spread of the tuberculosis (TB) disease and multidrugresistant tuberculosis.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Bruno_Regis_Lyrio_Ferraz.PDF: 3015137 bytes, checksum: d479e9335e2f200939b52075f9b84382 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Funda??o de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) / RESUMO Etionamida e pirazinamida s?o antibi?ticos ?teis no tratamento da tuberculose multirresistente. O presente trabalho descreve o desenvolvimento e valida??o de metodologias eletroanal?ticas para determina??o de etionamida e pirazinamida em formula??es farmac?uticas e em urina humana empregando um eletrodo de diamante dopado com boro e um eletrodo de carbono v?treo modificado comum filme de poli glicina. Durante o desenvolvimento de ambas as metodologias, a voltametria c?clica foi empregada para verificar a influ?ncia do pH, da velocidade de varredura e do eletr?lito suporte no comportamento eletroqu?mico de ambos os analitos, bem como foram calculados os n?meros de pr?tons e el?trons envolvidos em cada uma das rea??es eletroqu?micas. A voltametria de onda quadrada com os par?metros otimizados foi utilizada para construir curvas anal?ticas para a ETO e PZA. Para a ETO foi obtido um intervalo linear de 1,0 a 80,0 ?mol L?1, com LOD e LOQ iguais a 0,294 e 0,980 ?mol L?1, respectivamente. Para a PZA foi obtido um intervalo linear de 0,47 a 6,16 ?mol L?1, com LOD e LOQ iguais a 0,035 e 0,12 ?mol L?1, respectivamente. A precis?o foi avaliada pelo registro de voltamogramas no mesmo dia e em dias diferentes, obtendo-se desvios padr?es relativos, inferiores a 5,0% em ambos os m?todos. Os resultados dos estudos de interferentes mostraram que nenhuma das subst?ncias testadas interferiu de maneira significativa na determina??o de ambos os f?rmacos. Os m?todos desenvolvidos foram comparados estatisticamente com os protocolos oficiais da farmacopeia atrav?s do teste-t e do teste-F, e os resultados mostraram que os valores de t e F calculados foram menores do que os valores de t e F cr?ticos, indicando que n?o houve diferen?a estat?stica entre as m?dias. A exatid?o de ambos os m?todos foi avaliada tamb?m por estudos de adi??o e recupera??o, obtendo-se como resultados percentuais de recupera??o pr?ximos a 100% para ambos os m?todos. A valida??o das metodologias desenvolvidas foi realizada pela avalia??o dos par?metros anal?ticos como sensibilidade, seletividade, limite de detec??o, limite de quantifica??o, faixa linear, exatid?o e precis?o e os resultados obtidos foram satisfat?rios. Portanto, os m?todos desenvolvidos podem ser aplicados com sucesso na determina??o dos f?rmacos ETO e PZA em medicamentos e urina humana. / Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa de P?s-gradua??o em Ci?ncias Farmac?uticas, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2016. / ABSTRACT Ethionamide and pyrazinamide antibiotics are useful in the treatment of multidrugresistant tuberculosis. This work describes the development and validation of electroanalytical methodologies for determination of ethionamide and pyrazinamide in pharmaceutical formulation and human urine using boron-doped diamond electrode and poly glycine modified glassy carbon electrode, respectively. During the development of both methodologies, cyclic voltammetry was used to investigate the influence of pH, scan rate and the supporting electrolyte on the electrochemical behavior of both analytes, as well as the numbers of protons and electrons involved in each of the electrochemical reactions were calculated. Square wave voltammetry with optimized parameters were used to construct standard curves for ETO and PZA. For ETO a linear range from 1.0 to 80.0 ?mol L?1 was obtained with LOD and LOQ equal to 0.294 and 0.980 ?mol L?1, respectively. For PZA a linear range from 0.47 to 6.16 ?mol L?1was obtained with LOD and LOQ equal to 0.035 and 0.12 ?mol L?1, respectively. The precision was evaluated by voltammograms record on the same day and on different days, obtaining relative standard deviation less than 5.0% in both methods. The results of interfering studies showed that none of the tested substance interferes significantly in the determination of both drugs. The developed methods were statistically compared with the pharmacopoeia official protocols through the t-test and F-test, and the results showed that the calculated t and F values were lower than the critical t and F values indicating that there was no statistical difference between the averages. The accuracy of both methods was also evaluated by addition and recovery studies, obtaining results as percentage recovery close to 100% for both methods. The validation of the developed methodologies was carried out by the evaluation of analytical parameters such as sensitivity, selectivity, detection limit, quantification limit, linear range, accuracy and precision and the obtained results were satisfactory. Therefore, the developed methods can be applied successfully in the determination of ETO and PZA drugs in pharmaceuticals and human urine.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The irrigation of the rice crop is essential for good plant growth, assisting in achieving high grain yield levels. However, it results in large water volume used, thus the efficiency of water use is a major challenge to the sustainability of the crop. In this matter, early irrigation withholding can be considered an option for saving water. However, this practice can prejudice the quality of the crop, in yield and grain quality. In rice cultivars with large panicles, as in the case of hybrid rice, early withholding may be reflected in the quality of the grains from the bottom of the panicle, due to the difficulty of kernel filling in this region. Research was conducted during the growing seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13 , in order to verify the effect of anticipated moments of withholding irrigation on yield and water use efficiency ( Chapter II ) , and grain quality ( Chapter III ) of two rice cultivars . The experiments were conducted in the floodplains of the Departamento de Fitotecnia of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), using the experimental design of randomized blocks with four replications. Each experiment was composed of the factorial design appropriate to the factorsconsidered. Early withholding irrigation reduces the volume of water used in the rice crop, but depending on the moment and the cultivar, it can reduce productivity. For withholding irrigation performed before the recommended time it should be taken into account the cultivar, soil type and possible rainfall after the end of irrigation. Harvests with lower humidity than that recommended by research show a reduction in milling quality. Early withholding does not affect the milling quality, translucency, opaque and chalky grains; however, there was no difference in quality between the studied cultivars. / A irrigação da lavoura de arroz é fator imprescindível para o bom desenvolvimento da planta, auxiliando na obtenção de elevados níveis de rendimento de grãos. Entretanto resulta em grande volume de água utilizado, sendo a eficiência de uso de água um dos grandes desafios para a sustentabilidade da cultura. Neste sentido, a supressão antecipada da irrigação pode se constituir num aspecto de economia no uso de água. No entanto, essa prática pode comprometer a qualidade da lavoura no que se refere ao rendimento e à qualidade dos grãos. Em cultivares de arroz com características de panícula grande, como no caso do arroz híbrido, a supressão antecipada pode se refletir na qualidade dos grãos da parte inferior da panícula, em função da dificuldade do enchimento dos grãos nesta região. As ações de pesquisa foram conduzidas a campo durante as safras de cultivo de 2011/12 e 2012/13, com objetivo de verificar o efeito de momentos de supressão antecipada da irrigação no rendimento e na eficiência de uso da água (Capítulo II), e na qualidade dos grãos (Capítulo III) de dois cultivares de arroz irrigado. Os experimentos foram conduzidos a campo na área de várzea do Departamento de Fitotecnia da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), utilizando o delineamento experimental de blocos ao acaso com quatro repetições. Cada experimento foi constituído pelo delineamento fatorial adequado aos fatores em análise. A supressão antecipada da irrigação reduz o volume de água utilizado na lavoura, mas dependendo da época e do cultivar utilizado, pode reduzir a produtividade. Para a supressão da irrigação realizada antes da época recomendada deve-se levar em consideração o cultivar, tipo de solo e a possível precipitação pluvial após o término da irrigação. Colheitas realizadas com grau de umidade abaixo do preconizado pela pesquisa apresentam redução no rendimento de grãos inteiros. A supressão antecipada não interfere na qualidade de grãos inteiros, vítreos, opacos e gessados, no entanto, há diferença de qualidade entre os cultivares pesquisados.

Ce travail de thèse concerne la préparation et caractérisation des électrodes de carbone vitreuses (GC) modifiées par les films de groupements aryl (substitués) ou par phtalocyanines des métaux (MPc) et l'évaluation de leurs activités catalytiques envers la réduction électrochimique des nitrates dans les milieux aqueux acides. Les techniques adoptées pour la modification de surface du substrat (le GC) consistent à la réduction électrochimique des sels de diazonium ou à l'abrasion physique de la surface contre la poudre des MPc. En faisant intervenir un mécanisme complexe, y compris les phénomènes d'adsorption du réactif et du produit sur la surface, l’électroréduction de sels de diazonium entraîne au greffage des groupements aryls sur la surface. Les analyses voltamétriques détaillées ont rendu possible de conclure, décisivement pour la première fois, que la réduction commence à se faire sur la surface entière et, selon la concentration du diazonium et/ou l'efficacité du greffage, peut continuer à se faire à traverse les ouvertures microscopiques générés parmi les groupements aryl greffés sur la surface durant l'étape précédente de réduction (...) / This thesis work concerns about the preparation, characterization and catalytic activities evaluation of (substituted) aryl and metallophthalocyanines films-modified glassy carbon (GC) electrodes towards nitrate electrochemical reduction in acidic aqueous media. The surface modification techniques adopted consisted of the electroreduction of 4-substituted aryl diazonium salts and the metallophthalocyanine (MPc) powder abrasive adsorption. Through a complex mechanism involving the reactants and products adsorptions on the substrate surface, the electroreduction of aryl diazonium salts leads to the covalent attachment of mono as well as multilayers of aryl groups on the substrate surface. Detailed voltammetric investigations enabled to conclude, decisively for the first time, that the diazonium cation reduction begins to take place on the bulk (whole) surface and, depending upon the concentration and/or the products grafting efficiency, may continue to take place across the microscopic pinholes formed among the aryl groups grafted on the surface during the previous reduction step, thereby explaining the origin of the two reduction peaks in the voltammograms on GC surface. Electrochemical characterization of 4-nitrophenyl(NP)-modified surfaces in various types of aqueous media shed light over a number of mechanistic aspects of the process. Some new electrochemical evidences of the complications of surface coverage determination of redox centers from their electrochemical responses and of the role of aqueous electrolyte species transport on the responses have been presented. Some new phenomena or observations such as identification of the regions of votammograms corresponding to aminophenyl and hydroxyaminophenyl formation of the surface bound NP groups reduction, identification of the method of surface bound NP groups surface coverage estimation from the total width at half wave maximum (or electron transfer coefficient) of the responses, identification of the mechanistic aspects governing the differences of voltammetric behaviors of surface bound NP layers and the solution phase nitrobenzene, electrochemical (and XPS) evidences of the presence of azo type functionalities in the aryl films prepared from aryldiazonium electroreduction were also noticed. Barrier characters of the aryldiazonium electroreduction-derived N,N-dimethylaminophenyl-, nitrophenyl- and aminophenyl-modified surfaces towards ferricyanide, hexaammineruthenium and proton electroreductions in aqueous media indicate to the existence of electrostatic interactions among the surface bound and the solution phase ionic species. However, upon negative potential applications (such as those of water or nitrate reductions) surface attached films are partly or completely lost from the surface, as evidenced by the analytical scale measurements as well as from potentiostatic electrolysis of nitrate reduction in acidic aqueous media. Concerning the MPc-modified GC surfaces, the analytical scale measurements showed that among the phthalocyanines of copper, Iron and Nickel, the one of Cu is an optimizing material for the nitrate electrochemical reduction in, not previously reported, acidic aqueous media. The catalytic activity of MPc powders towards nitrate reduction in these media, which varies in the order CuPc > FePc > NiPc > GC appears to be related to the mental center and not with the phthalocyanine ring

Mit dieser Arbeit ist weltweit zum ersten Mal die molekulare Dynamik von vereinzelten,d.h. einander nicht berührenden Polymerketten experimentell bestimmt worden. Die Grundlagen dafür sind einerseits die breitbandige dielektrische Spektroskopie mit ihrer außerordentlich hohen experimentellen Empfindlichkeit und andererseits die Weiterentwicklung einer speziellen Probenanordnung, bei der hochleitfähige Silizium-Elektroden durch elektrisch isolierende Siliziumdioxid-Nanostrukturen in einem vordefinierten Abstand gehalten werden und so den Probenkondensator bilden. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde die Höhe der Nanostrukturen (und damit des Elektrodenabstands) auf nur 35 nm reduziert. Damit gelang der Nachweis, dass selbst vereinzelte kondensierte Polymer-Knäuel - im Rahmen der Messgenauigkeit - dieselbe Segmentdynamik (bzw. denselben dynamischen Glasübergang), gemessen in ihrer mittleren Relaxationsrate, wie die makroskopische Schmelze („bulk“) aufweisen. Nur ein kleiner Anteil der Segmente zeigt eine langsamere Dynamik, was auf attraktive Wechselwirkungen mit dem Substrat zurückzuführen ist, wie komplementäre Untersuchungen mittels Infrarot-Spektroskopie zeigen. Zudem bieten diese Experimente die Möglichkeit, nach der dielektrischen Messung die mit Nanostrukturen versehene obere Elektrode zu entfernen und die Verteilung der vereinzelten Polymerketten, deren Oberflächenprofile und Volumen mit dem Rasterkraftmikroskop zu bestimmen. Erst damit gelingt der Nachweis, dass die Polymer-Knäuel im Mittel aus einer einzelnen Kette bestehen. Die Kombination dieser drei unabhängigen Messmethoden liefert ein schlüssiges und detailliertes Bild, gekennzeichnet dadurch, dass attraktive Oberflächenwechselwirkungen die Glasdynamik nur über ca. 0,5nm direkt beeinflussen. In einem zweiten Teil trägt die Arbeit mit der Untersuchung dünner Polymerschichten im Nanometer-Bereich zu einer international geführten, kontroversen Diskussion um die Frage, ob sich im Falle solcher räumlichen Begrenzungen der dynamische und kalorimetrische Glasübergang ändern, bei. Dabei zeigt mit den präsentierten dielektrischen und ellipsometrischen Messungen eine Kombination aus einer Methode, die im Gleichgewichtszustand misst und einer, die den Übergang in den Nichtgleichgewichtszustand bestimmt, dass sich sowohl Polystyrol-Schichten verschiedener Molekulargewichte bis zu einer Dicke von nur 5 nm als auch Polymethylmethacrylat-Schichten auf unterschiedlichen (hydrophilen und hydrophoben) Substraten bis zu einer Dicke von 10 nm weder in ihrem dynamischen noch ihrem kalorimetrischen Glasübergang von der makroskopischen Schmelze unterscheiden.:Inhaltsverzeichnis I Abbildungsverzeichnis III Tabellenverzeichnis V 1 Einleitung 1 2 Theoretische Grundlagen 5 2.1 Glasübergang und Glasdynamik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.1 Kristallisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.2 Der kalorimetrische Glasübergang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.3 Der dynamische Glasübergang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.4 Theoretische Modelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2 Polymere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2.1 Molekulare Struktur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2.2 Molekulare Dynamik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.2.3 „Confinement effects“ - der Einfluss räumlicher Begrenzung . . . . . 19 2.3 Wechselwirkung von elektromagnetischen Feldern mit Materie . . . . . . . . 22 2.3.1 Polarisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2.3.2 Elektrostatik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2.3.3 Dielektrische Relaxation und Retardation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3 Material und Methoden 39 3.1 Experimentelle Methoden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3.1.1 Dielektrische Spektroskopie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3.1.2 Rasterkraftmikroskopie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.1.3 Ergänzende Methoden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 3.2 Datenauswertung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.2.1 Analyse der dielektrischen Messungen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.2.2 Analyse der Rasterkraftmikroskopaufnahmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 3.2.3 Verfahren zur Auswertung der ergänzenden Methoden . . . . . . . . 74 3.3 Probenmaterial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 3.4 Probenpräparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 3.4.1 Präparation dünner Polymerfilme und vereinzelter Polymerknäuel . . 84 3.4.2 Probenkondensatoren mit nanostrukturierten Elektroden . . . . . . . 90 3.4.3 Aufdampfen von Elektroden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 3.4.4 Tempern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 3.4.5 Besonderheiten der Präparation für die ergänzenden Methoden . . . 96 3.5 Reproduzierbarkeit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 3.5.1 Unerwünschte Veränderungen der Probe und Gegenmaßnahmen . . 98 3.5.2 Prüfung der Probenstabilität . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 3.5.3 Partikelkontamination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 4 Ergebnisse und Diskussion 105 4.1 Modellierung der dielektrischen Spektren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 4.1.1 Probenaufbau und Ersatzschaltbilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 4.1.2 Vergleich modellierter und gemessener Spektren . . . . . . . . . . . 111 4.1.3 Modell eines Polymer-Knäuels im Plattenkondensator . . . . . . . . . 119 4.1.4 Schlussfolgerungen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 4.2 Dünne Polymerschichten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 4.2.1 Polystyrol-Schichten verschiedener Molekulargewichte . . . . . . . . 128 4.2.2 Polymethylmethacrylat-Schichten auf unterschiedlichen Substraten . 135 4.2.3 Literaturdiskussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 4.2.4 Die präsentierten Ergebnisse im Kontext der Literatur . . . . . . . . . 155 4.3 Vereinzelte Polymer-Knäuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 4.3.1 Charakterisierung der Oberfläche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 4.3.2 Molekulare Dynamik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 4.3.3 Wechselwirkungen mit der Oberfläche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 4.3.4 Interpretation - das molekulare Bild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 5 Zusammenfassung 177 A Übersicht der Messungen und Experimentatoren 181 Literaturverzeichnis 182 Publikationsliste 205 Danksagung 209 Lebenslauf 211 Selbstständigkeitserklärung 213

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