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Polymer Crystallization on Curved Surfaces. Steve Kuei. Overview. Introduction Organic electronics Motivation Experimental Previous work Buckling Structures Atomic Force Microscopy Conclusions Future work. Organic Electronics. Solar Cells. Al. ITO. Motivation.
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Polymer Crystallization on Curved Surfaces Steve Kuei
Overview • Introduction • Organic electronics • Motivation • Experimental • Previous work • Buckling Structures • Atomic Force Microscopy • Conclusions • Future work
Organic Electronics • Solar Cells Al ITO
Motivation • Polymer crystallization
Previous work A. Hexemer, V. Vitelli, E.J. Kramer, G. H. Fredrickson
Previous work A. Hexemer, V. Vitelli, E.J. Kramer, G. H. Fredrickson
Curvature • Principal curvatures, • Mean curvature – average of principal curvatures • Gaussian Curvature – product of principal curvatures
Atomic Force Microscopy Images by Vijay Narayan Wikipedia, by Askewmind
P3EHT M.W. 7k g/mol Polymer synthesized by Segalman Group, Berkeley
Future work • Film thickness • Currently too thick, pooling in trenches • Orientation underneath surface layer is unknown • Buckling structures • Need to optimize amplitude and period of buckling structures so that polymer stays on the peaks • Need to control buckling structures to have regularly occurring gaussian curvature • Conclusions • Gaussian curvature appears to dominate, especially after annealing for longer periods of time, aligning polymer fibers along the troughs.
Acknowledgements • Princeton Environmental Institute Energy Grand Challenge • MIRTHE/PCCM REU program • Professor Loo, Professor Yao, Dr. Hexemer • Eleni Pavlopoulou, Jongbok Kim, Stephanie Lee, Pilnam Kim, Rich Fiorillo, Atray Dixit, Vijay Narayan