Molecular Picture of Adhesive Interface

Abstract

Adhesion technology has been used not only for devices and mobility, but also for social infrastructure, and becoming the basic technology for next-generation manufacturing. While the research and development for producing high-performance adhesives have widely progressed, understanding of the adhesion phenomenon at the molecular level has not achieved yet. That is, the systematic research on the elucidation of the principle of the adhesion mechanism has not been conducted. We here show aggregation states and dynamics of polymer chains, as a model of adhesive molecules, at the interfacial region with a solid using mainly modern interfacial sensitive spectroscopy.