Residual stresses in thin polymer films cause rupture and dominate early stages of dewetting

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 754-758

  Reiter, Günter ^a   Hamieh, Moustafa ^a,b   Damman, Pascal ^c   Sclavons, Séverine ^c   Gabriele, Sylvain ^c   Vilmin, Thomas ^d   Raphaël, Elie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS TRANSITION; HEATING; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SILICON; SPIN COATING; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

DEWETTING; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE (PDMS); THIN POLYMER FILMS;

PLASTIC FILMS;

BAYSILON; DIMETICONE; NANOMATERIAL; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WETTABILITY;

ADSORPTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYSTYRENES; SILICONES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WETTABILITY;

EID: 25844466984     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1484     Document Type: Article

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