Nanometer-scale flow of molten polyethylene from a heated atomic force microscope tip

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Felts, Jonathan R ^a   Somnath, Suhas ^a   Ewoldt, Randy H ^a   King, William P ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (AFM); ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE CANTILEVERS; CANTILEVER TIP; CAPILLARY FORCE; MARANGONI FORCE; MOLTEN POLYETHYLENE; NANO-METER-SCALE; NON EQUILIBRIUM; POLYMER FLOWS; POLYMER MASS; POLYMER NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYMER VISCOSITY; SOLIDIFICATION FRONTS; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL DIP-PEN NANOLITHOGRAPHY; WETTING DYNAMICS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; POLYMERS;

SHEAR FLOW;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEATING; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TRANSDUCER; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEATING; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYETHYLENE; SOLUTIONS; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84860613461     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/21/215301     Document Type: Article

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