Title of Document: STUDY OF THE FEASIBILITY OF CONTROLLING THE LENGTH SCALE OF THE PHASE SEPARATION OF ORGANIC MOLECULAR MIXTURES ON Si(111) SUBSTRATES Miriam Cezza, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Raymond J. Phaneuf, Department of Materials Science and Engineering We present investigations on the arrangements of phase separating small organic molecules in mixtures subsequent ...

in this study, a novel method called “atmospheric pressure solution evaporation (apse)” wasdeveloped for growing of zinc oxide (zno) nanostructures on al2o3 surface. zinc acetate dihydrate,polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and deionized water were used as precursor, capping, and solvent, respectively.the growth of zno nanostructures from evaporated solution was performed at three temperatures of300, 400, ...

In this contribution, mathematical model for the description of solvent evaporation and noble metal crystallization in a porous medium is presented. The methodology is based on the volume-of-fluid method and the aim is validation of the model by comparing the numerical simulation results with analytical solutions for evaporation from a single pore and for particle growth and Ostwald ripening of...

Subject of this study is the free boundary problem of a liquid layer that is dried by evaporation. Using a Stefan type problem, we model the diffusion driven drying of a layer of liquid paint consisting of resin and solvent. The effect of a small perturbation of the flat boundary is considered. We include the discussion of evaporation constant as a free parameter. For both small and big wavenum...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of solvent evaporation in the kinetics of water diffusion (water sorption-WS, solubility-SL, and net water uptake) and nanoleakage of adhesive systems. MATERIAL AND METHODS Disk-shaped specimens (5.0 mm in diameter x 0.8 mm in thickness) were produced (N=48) using the adhesives: Clearfil S3 Bond (CS3)/Kuraray, Clearfil SE Bond - control group (CSE)/Kuraray,...

The purpose of this study was to quantify the permeability of adhesive resin films to water by measuring convective flow across thin films. Cured resin films were prepared with the use of five commercially available adhesive resins and an experimental resin. Two types of resin films were prepared from solvated comonomer blends within each product; resin films made before or after evaporation of...