Lee, SH Yoo, PJ Kwon, SJ Lee, HH 2024-01-21T06:31:58Z 2024-01-21T06:31:58Z 2021-09-01 2004-09-01 0021-9606 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/137246 An experimental method suitable for reproducible results has been used to investigate dewetting behavior of thin films of solvent-laden polymer. This solvent-driven dewetting enables one to change spreading coefficient by an order of magnitude that is not readily realizable in thermal dewetting and to study polar interactions that have not been fully exploited experimentally. While the film instability is similar to that found in thermal dewetting, the rim instability is quite different. Two different types of the rim instability have been found. With a polar solvent, the rim instability changes from one type to another with increasing film thickness whereas the unstable rim becomes stable for an apolar solvent. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics. English AMER INST PHYSICS THIN POLYMER-FILMS PATTERN-FORMATION LIQUID-FILMS RANGE STABILITY DENSITY RUPTURE POLYSTYRENE NUCLEATION VISCOSITY Solvent-driven dewetting and rim instability Article 10.1063/1.1770475 1 JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, v.121, no.9, pp.4346 - 4351 JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 121 9 4346 4351 scie scopus 000223623800046 Chemistry, Physical Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical Chemistry Physics Article THIN POLYMER-FILMS PATTERN-FORMATION LIQUID-FILMS RANGE STABILITY DENSITY RUPTURE POLYSTYRENE NUCLEATION VISCOSITY dewetting rim instability solvent