• Media type: Text; Report; E-Book
  • Title: Interface morphologies in liquid/liquid dewetting
  • Contributor: Kostourou, Konstantina [Author]; Peschka, Dirk [Author]; Münch, Andreas [Author]; Wagner, Barbara [Author]; Herminghaus, Stephan [Author]; Seemann, Ralf [Author]
  • imprint: Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010
  • Issue: published Version
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.34657/2541
  • ISSN: 0946-8633; 0946-8633
  • Keywords: Thin films ; polymer-polymer dewetting ; lubrication theory ; numerical solution
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  • Description: The dynamics and morphology of a liquid polystyrene (PS) film on the scale of a hundred nanometer dewetting from a liquid polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) film is investigated experimentally and theoretically. The polymers considered here are both below their entanglement lengths and have negligible elastic properties. A theoretical model based on viscous Newtonian flow for both polymers is set up from which a system of coupled lubrication equations is derived and solved numerically. A direct comparison of the numerical solution with the experimental findings for the characteristic signatures of the cross-sections of liquid/air and liquid/liquid phase boundaries of the dewetting rims as well as the dewetting rates is performed and discussed for various viscosity ratios of the PS and PMMA layers.
  • Access State: Open Access