CAREER: Sculptured Thin Films: Non-Linear Nanomechanics and Homogenization for a New Class of Engineered Thin Film Composites with Evolving Nanostructure

采用纳米力学的方法来表征雕刻薄膜的非线性热力学性能。此外，本文还建立了一种均匀化理论，通过解析和计算推导出这些纳米工程系统的有效本构方程和演化方程。软件和计算机为基础的课件开发模拟实验活动，用于识别均质材料和复合材料的热机械性能。该项目有助于改进一种新型复合薄膜的制造和寿命预测技术，这种薄膜在电致发光器件、光学传感器技术、病毒捕获微筛或生物和非生物来源表面上生物组织生长方面具有广阔的应用前景。

Nanomechanics is employed to characterize the nonlinear thermo-mechanical properties of sculptured thin films. Also, a homogenization theory of sculptured thin films is formulated to analytically and computationally derive the effective constitutive and evolution equations of these nano- engineered systems. Software and computer-based courseware is developed to simulate the experimental activity used in the identification of the thermo-mechanical properties of homogeneous as well as composite materials. The project contributes to the improvement of fabrication and life prediction techniques for a new class of composite thin films with promising applications on electroluminescent devices, optical sensor technology, micro-sieves for entrapment of viruses or for growth of biological tissues on surfaces of biological and on-biological origin.