Wetting and phase separation in polymer blend films: Identification of four thickness regimes with distinct morphological pathways

Interface Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-248

  Wang, Howard ^a   Composto, Russell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Morphology; Phase separation; Polymer blend; Thin films; Wetting

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POLYSTYRENES; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES; THIN FILMS; WETTING;

DEUTERATED POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; FILM THICKNESS; FORWARD RECOIL SPECTROMETRY; GYRATION; POLYSTYRENE RAN ACRYLONITRILE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0037375822     PISSN: 09277056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022135031363     Document Type: Article

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