Coarsening in the electrohydrodynamic patterning of thin polymer films

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Wu, Ning ^a,b   Kavousanakis, Michail E ^a   Russel, William B ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM ELECTRODES; COARSENING MECHANISMS; COARSENING RATES; DE-WETTING; DISJOINING PRESSURES; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC PATTERNING; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GEOMETRIC CONFINEMENT; HIGH FILLS; LINEAR GROWTH; LOGARITHMIC TIME; MAXWELL STRESS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PILLARLIKE; PSEUDO STEADY STATE; THIN LIQUID FILM; THIN POLYMER FILMS; UNIFORM SIZE;

ALGEBRA; COARSENING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; EXCITONS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; LIQUID FILMS; OSTWALD RIPENING; PLANTS (BOTANY); PLASTIC FILMS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 77249172235     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.026306     Document Type: Article

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