244th American Chemical Society National Meeting
Philadelphia on August 19 - 23, 2012.

 

A tutorial will be offered on Sunday morning, August 19th on AFM of Polymer Materials, directly preceeding the symposium of “Advances in Methods and Applications of SPM to Polymer Materials.”

 

This tutorial is aimed at non-specialists to provide a background in AFM specifically for imaging of polymer materials.  It will include an overview of AFM instrumentation and basic imaging modes (tapping mode, contact mode, force spectroscopy.)  Basics of contact mechanics used to model AFM tip-sample interactions including viscoelastic models that would be relevant to polymer systems will also be reviewed. An AFM simulation tool, virtual environment for dynamic AFM (VEDA) will also be introduced.  Hints for good imaging and experimental artifacts, especially those commonly observed in imaging polymer materials will be reviewed.  The tutorial will end with a review of advanced imaging modes including multifrequency imaging, dynamic contact imaging and hybrid AFM methods and some challenges when trying to make quantitative mechanical measurements on polymer materials.

 

The tutorial will be delivered by Dalia Yablon (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering), Daniel Kiracofe and Arvind Raman (Purdue University), and Greg Haugstad (University of Minnesota.)

 

The tutorial is 8:30am-12:30pm, Sheraton Philadelphia City Center, Independence Ballroom D.

 

No advance registration required – hope to see you there!

 

Dalia Yablon

Corporate Strategic Research

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering

1545 Rt. 22E

Annandale, NJ 08801

 

908 730 2187