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Schroeder, Charles M. Schroeder, Charles M. Higdon, Jonathan J.L. Kenis, Paul J.A. Ewoldt, Randy H. Brockman, Christopher A. 2014-05-30T16:45:32Z 2014-05-30T16:45:32Z 2014-05 2014-05-30T16:45:32Z 2014-05 Polymeric materials play a profound role in our daily lives. There have been many key advances in polymer processing over the last several decades, but much of the underlying molecular behavior and physics of polymer solutions is not fully understood. Single molecule studies of polymer solutions provide an avenue for studying polymer dynamics and can aid in developing new molecular models of dynamic behavior. For nearly two decades, fluorescentlylabeled double stranded DNA (dsDNA) has been the model system for studying single molecule polymer dynamics in non-equilibrium conditions; however, dsDNA is a semiflexible polymer with markedly different local molecular properties compared to flexible polymer chains, such as synthetic organic polymers. This thesis presents a new methodology for studying truly flexible polymers at the single molecule level. We have demonstrated the ability to synthesize long strands of fluorescentlylabeled ssDNA, and we directly imaged single ssDNA polymers stretching in fluid flows in microfluidic devices (Chapter 2). In addition, we have developed an automated flow-based method to isolate individual polymer chains for long periods of time in planar extensional flow (Chapter 3). By combining the tools we developed we were able to study the longest polymer relaxation time dynamics of flexible polymers (Chapter 4), and utilizing both Brownian dynamics simulations and single molecule experiments, we were able to study the relaxation dynamics of flexible chains. In addition, we were able to use to automated hydrodynamic trap to study dynamics of polymers in precisely controlled flow conditions that have not been studied previously (Chapter 6), as well as the dynamics of a different class of materials: ring polymers. Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin (lspradl2@illinois.edu) on 2014-03-18T13:16:56Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Brockman_Christopher.pdf: 3342538 bytes, checksum: 664d342d76d1932ced0951e65a69d47c (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-30T16:45:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Christopher_Brockman.pdf: 3342504 bytes, checksum: 8f5d704d4ad54f6ff2cd539783c9a05b (MD5) license.txt: 4070 bytes, checksum: fb2ab5996bd50bc56407367f5d223b40 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49461 en Copyright 2014 Christopher Brockman Fluorescence microscopy polymers single molecule dynamics Single molecule studies of flexible polymer systems text Chemical & Biomolecular Engr 1687 Chemical Engineering 0300 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Chemical Engineering -UIUC 10KS0300PHD