Electric field and dewetting induced hierarchical structure formation in polymer/polymer/air trilayers

Chaos

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Leach, K Amanda ^a   Gupta, Suresh ^a   Dickey, Michael D ^b   Willson, C Grant ^b   Russell, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

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EID: 29844447366     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2132248     Document Type: Article

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