Polymer applications have become more demanding as industry continuously turns to more microscopic parts. Due to the interactions of the polymer chains with the supporting surface and the air interface, the thinner films required for such applications have distinctly different properties than those of the well-defined bulk systems. The goal of the current research is to elucidate the behavior of ultrathin films. Two separate studies were performed on thin films supported on silicon wafer substrates: the first focuses on the viscoelastic cooperativity of thin films, and the second concentrates on the morphological behavior of polymer brush films. For the first.
