Solvent-driven dewetting and rim instability
- Authors
- Lee, SH; Yoo, PJ; Kwon, SJ; Lee, HH
- Issue Date
- 2004-09-01
- Publisher
- AMER INST PHYSICS
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, v.121, no.9, pp.4346 - 4351
- Abstract
- 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.
- Keywords
- THIN POLYMER-FILMS; PATTERN-FORMATION; LIQUID-FILMS; RANGE; STABILITY; DENSITY; RUPTURE; POLYSTYRENE; NUCLEATION; VISCOSITY; THIN POLYMER-FILMS; PATTERN-FORMATION; LIQUID-FILMS; RANGE; STABILITY; DENSITY; RUPTURE; POLYSTYRENE; NUCLEATION; VISCOSITY; dewetting; rim; instability; solvent
- ISSN
- 0021-9606
- URI
- https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/137246
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1770475
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- KIST Article > 2004
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