Kenneth R. Shull

TL;DR: Citrate's dual role in controlling the morphology of silver deposits produced in this work is confirmed, with results confirming citrate's ability to cap and restrict silver growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a membrane inflation geometry to characterize the mechanical properties of pentablock copolymer membranes designed for water purification applications and found that the creep compliance of the films for applied stresses in the megapascal range increased substantially as the degree of sulfonation and consequent hydration of the middle block was increased.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used X-ray reflectivity to study X-radiation damage to thin films of poly(tert-butyl acrylate) and polystyrene at various incident flux densities and sample temperatures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used self-consistent field theory and a variety of experimental techniques to develop a simple criterion for the location of the sphere/cylinder transition in solutions with concentrations above the micelle overlap threshold.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that the resonance modes in a thin-film-based x-ray waveguide are extremely sensitive to the electron density distribution in the thin film, and that a diffusion of a gold nanoparticle submonolayer embedded in the waveguide can be observed with dramatic change in X-ray reflectivity and fluorescence data in the low-angle < 0.5° resonance regime.