Films financial support

The authors would like to thank NSF for its support of this work through a graduate Student Fellowship to KLT and both the I/U CRC Center for Separations Using Thin Films and the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute for their financial support of the project. The authors would also like to acknowledge 3M for donation of the microporous polyethylene support used in this work. 

We acknowledge the Commonwealth of Virginia for financial support of the work. We thank American Cyanamid for supplying the FM 300U film adhesive and ICI for providing polyethersulfone. The technical assistance of Mr. Frank Cromer in the Surface Analysis Laboratory at Virginia Tech is appreciated. 

In Europe, short films are considered an art form and consequently receive exhibition at festivals and financial support from local, state, and federal cultural organizations. There, the phenomenon of shorter films is equally of interest. For example, the film chosen as the Best European Short of 2002 is only 4 minutes long. We will now look at this film as well. 

Acknowledgements. Financial support by the FWF within the NFN Interface Controlled and Functionalised Thin Organic Films (S9702-N08 and S9704-N08) is gratefully acknowledged. 

The financial support by the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) is gratefully acknowledged. Further thanks go to Ms. Awa Sow (film preparation, FTIR) and Mr. Roland Kramer (SFM) for experimental assistance. 

We acknowledge the contribution to this chapter of all the current and former members of the Catalysis, Molecular Separations and Reactor Engineering Group and Nanostructured Films and Particles Group at the University of Zaragoza. We would also like to thank the DGA (Aragon), MCYT-MICINN-MINECO (Spain), and the European Union for financial support. 

MV would like to express his profound gratitude to the CNRS and der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for the support of his stay in the laboratory Structure et Reactivity des Systymes Interfaciaux and in the Fritz-Haber-Institut, as well as to the Russian Foundation of Fundamental Investigations for its financial support of his studies on electroactive polymer films (grant RFFI No. 93-03-4448). 

The authors thank CONICET and ANPYCT for financial supporting this work and Arcor Group Argentina for kindly provide the pristine film. 

To report this work accurately, it must be pointed out that there were supporters and detractors. In some cases, their deliberations were unknown to me. In summary, however, the DuPont Company supported a very exciting effort and was rewarded with financial returns. The Photo Products Department changed from a producer of silver films to an innovator and powerhouse in the prepress proofing and electronic products area. 

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