Surface driven phase transitions and processes involving polymer systems Andrzej Pawlak Coordinator: Andrzej Gałęski Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź, Poland Subject: Interfacial phenomena in materials Instrument: STREP

Crystallization in polymer systems: -nucleation- size and confinement effects, - in contact with atomically flat surfaces. Orientational crystallization in nanocomposites. Formation of oriented thin layers on solid surfaces by zone casting Crystallization of inorganic crystals controlled by copolymers – for design of particles: size and shape, controlled by blocking of crystal growth faces Structure formation in polymer blend films: - surface and interfacial phenomena (interactions, instabilities) in structure formation (during spin-casting, thermal annealing) -pattern-directed (soft lithographic) structure alignment inside films (nano-, meso-) on model polymers

CONSORTIUM: 1. Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polymer Physics Department, Lodz, Poland 2. Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polymer Chemistry Department, Lodz, Poland 3. Ecole de Mine de Paris, Sophia Antipolis, France 4. Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers (CNR), Naples, Italy 5. Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracov, Poland 6. Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, RAS, Moscow, Russia 7. Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, AS CR, Praha, Czech Republic 8. Laboratoire des Materiaux Macromoleculaires, LMM/IMP, INSA, Lyon, France 9. Institute fur Werkstoffwissenschaft, Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany 10. Department of Polymer Sciences&Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 11. Department of Materials Science and Technology of Polymers, University of Twente, MESA+ Research Institute for Nanotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Enschede, Netherlands 12. Yildiz University, Istanbul, Turkey 13. Leibniz-Institut fur Polymerforschung, Dresden, Germany 14. C.N.R., Istituto per Materiali Compositi e Biomedici, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy 15. University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany