Instability of hydrophobic and viscoelastic polymer thin films in water at room temperature

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 25, Issue 41, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Dan ^a   Wang, Tao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; DEWETTING PROCESS; DROPLET FORMATION; INSTABILITY MECHANISMS; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SPINODAL DEWETTING; VISCOELASTIC POLYMERS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

FILM THICKNESS;

1,3 BUTADIENE DERIVATIVE; HEMITERPENE; ISOPRENE; NANOPARTICLE; PENTANE; WATER; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

BUTADIENES; ELASTIC MODULUS; HEMITERPENES; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPARTICLES; PENTANES; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY; WATER;

EID: 84884827500     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/41/415101     Document Type: Article

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