Dewetting of a solid monolayer
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-13 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We report on the dewetting of a monolayer on a solid substrate, where mass transport occurs via surface diffusion. For a wide range of parameters, a labyrinthine pattern of bilayer islands is formed. An irreversible regime and a thermodynamic regime are identified. In both regimes, the velocity of a dewetting front, the wavelength of the bilayer island pattern, and the rate of nucleation of dewetted zones are obtained. We also point out the existence of a scaling behavior, which is analyzed by means of a geometrical model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.4082,
title = {Dewetting of a solid monolayer},
author = {Olivier Pierre-Louis and Anna Chame and Yukio Saito},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.4082},
year = {2009}
}
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to be published in PhysRevLett