AVS 47th International Symposium
    Material Characterization Thursday Sessions

Session MC-ThM
Polymer Characterization

Thursday, October 5, 2000, 8:20 am, Room 207
Moderator: B.C. Beard, Akzo Nobel Chemicals


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8:20am MC-ThM1 Invited Paper
Quantification of Polymer Surface Composition Based on ToF-SIMS Data
P. Bertrand, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
9:00am MC-ThM3
Characterisation of Polymer Additives by Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS)
R. Kersting, B. Hagenhoff, TASCON GmbH, Germany, D. Rading, E. Niehuis, ION-TOF GmbH, Germany
9:20am MC-ThM4
Surface Composition of Poly(imidesiloxane) Copolymers Containing Multiple Siloxane Lengths
C.M. Mahoney, State University of New York at Buffalo, J Rosenfeld, S.R. Rojstaczer, Occidental Chemical Corporation, J.A. Gardella, State University of New York at Buffalo
9:40am MC-ThM5
High Spatial Resolution XPS and FTIR: An Approach to 3-D Characterization of Polymer Blends
K. Artyushkova, G. Czwerniec, J.E. Fulghum, Kent State University, B. Wall, J. Koenig, Case Western Reserve University
10:00am MC-ThM6
Iron Metallization of Fluorinated Organic Films; A Combined XPS and AFM Study
S.R. Carlo, A.J. Wagner, D.H. Fairbrother, Johns Hopkins University
10:20am MC-ThM7
Interactions of Cu(I) with the Surface of a Novel Poly(imidazole)
A.L. Marsh, D.J. Burnett, University of Michigan, D.A. Fischer, National Institute of Standards and Technology, P.G. Rasmussen, J.L. Gland, University of Michigan
10:40am MC-ThM8
Study of Semicrystalline Poly(ethylene terephthalate) by Atomic Force Microscopy
M. Kovar, U. Gorodzinsky, P.R. Norton, University of Western Ontario, Canada
11:00am MC-ThM9
Morphology of Catalytically Formed Polyethylene on a Planar Model System for the Phillips (CrOx / SiO2) Catalyst
P.C. Thuene, J. Loos, P.J. Lemstra, J.W. Niemantsverdriet, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
11:20am MC-ThM10
Nano-Mechanics of Polymer Surfaces
C. Steffan, H. Liu, R.M. Winter, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology