Research Interests

Mesoscale polymer physics involving interfacial structure and properties utilizing quantitative transmission electron microscopy, Rutherford backscattering and forward recoil spectrometry, secondary ion mass spectrometry and neutron reflectometry. Selected Publications

• "Spinodal Decomposition in a Sub-surface Layer of a Polymer Blend Film", J. Heier, E.J. Kramer, P. Revesz, G. Battistig and F.S Bates, Macromolecules, 32, 3758-3765 (1999).
• "Structure of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymers in Thin Films", H. Yokoyama, T. Mates and E.J. Kramer, Macromolecules, 33 1888-1898 (2000)
• "Transfer of a Chemical Substrate Pattern into an Island-Forming Diblock Copolymer Film", J. Heier, J. Genzer, E.J. Kramer, F.S. Bates, S. Walheim and G. Krausch, J. Chem. Phys., 111, 11101-11110 (1999).
• "Temperature Dependence of Molecular Orientation on the Surfaces of Semifluorinated Polymer Thin Films", J. Genzer, E. Sivaniah, E. J. Kramer, J. Wang, H. Körner, K Char, C.K. Ober, B. M. DeKoven, R.A. Bubeck, D.A. Fischer, and S. Sambasivan, Langmuir, 16 1993-1997 (2000).
• "Diffusion in Mixtures of Asymmetric Block Copolymers with Homopolymers", H. Yokoyama, E.J. Kramer, D.A. Hajduk and F.S. Bates, Macromolecules, 32, 3353-3359 (1999).