Microscopic Wrinkles on Supported Surfactant Monolayers

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2007-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/0708.0041v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12 pages, 6 figures. Accepted as a Regular Article in Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041608

We discuss mechanical buckling instabilities of a rigid film under compression interacting repulsively with a substrate through a thin fluid layer. The buckling occurs at a characteristic wavelength that increases as the 1/4th power of the bending stiffness, like a gravitational instability studied previously by Milner et al. However, the potential can affect the characteristic buckling wavelength strongly, as predicted by Huang and Suo. If the potential changes sufficiently sharply with thickness, this instability is continuous, with an amplitude varying as the square root of overpressure. We discuss three forms of interaction important for the case of Langmuir monolayers transferred to a substrate: Casimir-van der Waals interaction, screened charged double-layer interaction and the Sharma potential. We verify these predictions numerically in the Van der Waals case.

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