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Description:: Understanding organization of soft materials on mesoscopic and nanoscopic scales is importantfor materials design. In this regard, non-van der Waals interactions such as hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions offer great opportunities due to the richness and diversity in morphological structures they produce. The primary reason for this is that these...
Subject:: Molecular physics and Materials Science
Creator:: Prusty, Debadutta
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16315 and etdadmin_upload_938426

Description:: Over the last few years, there has been a transition away from traditional engineering materials to new advanced materials that exhibit complex architectures with improved mechanical properties. Most of the inspiration for these new materials comes from nature, where organisms have evolved an immense variety of macro and nanoscale shapes...
Keyword:: Catch bond, Biomimicry, Self-strengthening , Non-bonded interactions, Biomimetic systems, and Synthetic
Subject:: Molecular physics, Materials Science, and Biophysics
Creator:: Dansuk, Kerim Can
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/06/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_843657 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15721

Description:: To relate the mechanical responses of hard-soft copolymer systems with their microstructures, a coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) approach is employed. With the generic bead-spring polymer model mapped from atomistic simulations, this dissertation first studies the morphology of structures with various hard-soft compositions and interactions between hard beads. Following that, this...
Keyword:: coarse-grained molecular dynamics, local modulus, polyurea, micro-phase separation, interphase, and viscoelasticity
Subject:: Molecular physics, Materials Science, and Mechanical engineering
Creator:: Zhang, Min
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14464 and etdadmin_upload_626984

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