Interfacial instability driven by dispersive forces: The early stages of spinodal dewetting of a thin polymer film on a polymer substrate

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 5173-5176

  Sferrazza, M ^a   Heppenstall Butler, M ^a   Cubitt, R ^c   Bucknall, D ^d   Webster, J ^d   Jones, R A L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRON REFLECTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE TENSION; ULTRATHIN FILMS; VISCOSITY; WETTING;

DEWETTING; THERMALLY EXCITED CAPILLARY WAVE;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 0032494917     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5173     Document Type: Article

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