Instability of polymer films
Open Access
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- Published by EDP Sciences in Journal de Physique Lettres
- Vol. 46 (12) , 543-547
- https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyslet:019850046012054300
Abstract
We consider a dilute collection of polymer chains confined to a solvent film which is spread upon a solid surface. We show that for weak wetting there exist a long range attractive interaction between chains which may lead to a two dimensional phase separation even in good solventsKeywords
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