Elastic modulus of nanostructured polymer surfaces
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-15-2012
Department
Department of Physics
Abstract
Living cell cultures exhibit improved adhesion on polymer surfaces engineered with nano-scale structures as compared to their flat counterparts. During fabrication their polymer-chain structure can be altered, thus affecting their mechanical properties. Here, we demonstrate using atomic-force-microscope nanoindentation that the modulus of nanostructured PDMS is doubled, while that of nanostructured ORMOCER increases by an order of magnitude, when compared to their flat counterparts.
Publication Title
Materials Letters
Recommended Citation
Tang, B.,
Aifantis, K.,
&
Ngan, A.
(2012).
Elastic modulus of nanostructured polymer surfaces.
Materials Letters,
67(1), 237-240.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2011.08.107
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