What is the role of the interfacial interaction in the slow relaxation of nanometer-thick polymer melts on a solid surface?

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 6151-6156

  Wang, Yongjin ^a   Sun, Jianing ^b   Li, Lei ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b J A WOOLLAM CO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK COUNTERPART; COOPERATIVITY; FREE POLYMERS; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; LOW MOBILITY; NANO SCALE; NANOMETER-THICK FILMS; PERFLUOROPOLYETHERS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER STRUCTURE; RELAXATION BEHAVIORS; SLOW RELAXATIONS; SOLID SURFACE; WATER CONTACT ANGLE MEASUREMENT;

CONTACT ANGLE; SILICON WAFERS;

POLYMER MELTS;

ETHER DERIVATIVE; FLUOROCARBON; NANOMATERIAL; PERFLUOROPOLYETHER; POLYMER; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FRICTION; KINETICS; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ETHERS; FLUOROCARBONS; FRICTION; KINETICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMERS; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84859571566     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la3002674     Document Type: Article

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