A Universal Nucleation Mechanism for Solvent Cast Polymer Film Rupture
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
It is shown that the intrinsic stress in solvent cast polymer coatings plays a key role in the nucleation of holes in the film. Nucleation is important because it is meanwhile clear that heterogeneous nucleation is the only relevant rupture mechanism for the technologically relevant thickness regime well above 100 nm. The most striking feature is that in contrast to what has been widely believed, the number density of holes scales not algebraically, but exponentially with the film thickness.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0105065,
title = {A Universal Nucleation Mechanism for Solvent Cast Polymer Film Rupture},
author = {Daniel Podzimek and Annemarie Saier and Ralf Seemann and Karin Jacobs and Stephan Herminghaus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0105065},
year = {2007}
}
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3 pages, 3 figures, text in revtex format