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Dynamics of viscous amphiphilic films supported by elastic solid substrates

Condensed Matter 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

The dynamics of amphiphilic films deposited on a solid surface is analyzed for the case when shear oscillations of the solid surface are excited. The two cases of surface- and bulk shear waves are studied with film exposed to gas or to a liquid. By solving the corresponding dispersion equation and the wave equation while maintaining the energy balance we are able to connect the surface density and the shear viscocity of a fluid amphiphilic overlayer with experimentally accessible damping coefficients, phase velocity, dissipation factor and resonant frequency shifts of shear waves.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9706058,
  title  = {Dynamics of viscous amphiphilic films supported by elastic solid substrates},
  author = {M. V. Voinova and M. Jonson and B. Kasemo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9706058},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, latex, 3 figures in eps-format