• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Pseudo-Casimir stresses and elasticity of a confined elastomer film
  • Contributor: Lu, Bing-Sui; Naji, Ali; Podgornik, Rudolf
  • imprint: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2016
  • Published in: Soft Matter
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00160b
  • ISSN: 1744-6848; 1744-683X
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  • Description: <p>Thermal fluctuations of the cross-links in a confined, incompressible elastomer film lead to significant departures from the predictions of the classical rubber elasticity theory and, in particular, to a pseudo-Casimir stress whose scaling with the film thickness depends on the types of interfacial boundary conditions.</p>