Dewetting of thin-film polymers

Details Dewetting of thin-film polymers Dewetting of thin-film polymers

2002-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207143v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12 pages, 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.061607

In this paper we present a theoretical model for the dewetting of ultra-thin polymer films. Assumming that the shear-thinning properties of these films can be described by a Cross-type constitutive equation, we analyze the front morphology of the dewetting film, and characterize the time evolution of the dry region radius, and of the rim height. Different regimes of growth are expected, depending on the initial film thickness, and on the power-law index involved in the constitutive equation. In the thin-films regime, the dry radius and the rim height obey power-law time dependences. We then compare our predictions with the experimental results obtained by Debr\'egeas {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 75}, 3886 (1995)] and by Reiter [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 87}, 186101 (2001)].

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