Early and intermediate stages of guided dewetting in polystyrene thin films

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 10147-10151

  Ghezzi, Manuel ^a   Thickett, Stuart C ^a,b   Neto, Chiara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLSILANES; ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; DE-WETTING; HOLE GROWTH; HOMOGENEOUS SUBSTRATES; HYDROPHOBIC REGIONS; INTERMEDIATE STAGE; LOCALIZED FEATURES; MICRO CONTACT PRINTING; PATTERNED SILICON; POLYSTYRENE THIN FILMS; PROTEOMICS; SELF-ASSEMBLING MONOLAYERS; SINGLE CELL STUDIES;

BIOSENSORS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOLAYERS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THIN FILMS;

POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 84863746024     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la301773h     Document Type: Article

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