Enhanced resistance to decay of imprinted nanopatterns in thin films by bare nanoparticles compared to polymer-grafted nanoparticles

Bhadauriya, Sonal; Nallapaneni, Asritha; Wang, Xiaoteng; Zhang, Jianan; Masud, Ali; Bockstaller, Michael R.; Al-Enizi, Abdullah M.; Stafford, Christopher M.; Douglas, Jack F.; Karim, Alamgir

doi:10.1039/d1na00206f

Title: Enhanced resistance to decay of imprinted nanopatterns in thin films by bare nanoparticles compared to polymer-grafted nanoparticles

Journal Article · 19 July 2021 · Nanoscale Advances

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d1na00206f · OSTI ID:1813489

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Univ. of Akron, OH (United States)
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)
King Saud Univ., Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)

We extend a previous study on the influence of nanoparticles on the decay of nanoimprinted polymer film patterns to compare the effects of “bare” silica (SiO₂) nanoparticles and SiO₂ nanoparticles with grafted polymer layers having the same chemical composition as the polymer matrix. This method involves nanoimprinting substrate-supported polymer films using a pattern replicated from a digital versatile disc (DVD), and then annealing the patterned polymer nanocomposite films at elevated temperatures to follow the decay of the topographic surface pattern with time by atomic force microscopy imaging after quenching. We quantified the relaxation of the pattern height (“slumping”) and determined the relaxation time τ for this pattern decay process as a function of nanoparticle filler type and concentration to determine how nanoparticle additives influence relative film stability. Attractive interactions between the bare nanoparticles and the polymer matrix significantly enhance the thermal resilience of the nanopatterns to decay, compared to those of the particle brushes, wherein the particle core interactions are screened from the matrix via the brush layer. A novel aspect of this method is that it readily lends itself to in situ film relaxation measurements in a manufacturing context. We observe that the relaxation time of the pattern relaxation exhibits entropy–enthalpy compensation in the free energy parameters governing the pattern relaxation process as a function of temperature, irrespective of the NP system used, consistent with our previous experimental and computational studies.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: King Saud University; USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018854

OSTI ID:: 1813489

Journal Information:: Nanoscale Advances, Journal Name: Nanoscale Advances Journal Issue: 18 Vol. 3; ISSN 2516-0230

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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