Title page for E-project-043009-033800

Project Type	MQP
Submission date	2009-04-30
Author	Evan Vincent Anderson, evan09@WPI.EDU, PH
URN	E-project-043009-033800
Title	Polymer Brush Force Modeling and Experimentation
Advisors	Burnham, Nancy A., PH Camesano, Terri Anne, CM
Availability	restricted
Abstract Atomic force microscope (AFM) force measurements were taken on an alginate-polymer brush in varying pH buffer solutions in order to determine the meaning of the variable s in the force model. The current understanding is that s is the root spacing of the polymers, but this experiment suggests that s is the mesh spacing. The force curves were fit in order to determine the brush parameters. It was found that all parameters increased as a function of pH.
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