Generic morphologies of viscoelastic dewetting fronts

Preprint

12 January 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0201193

Abstract

A simple model is put forward which accounts for the occurrence of certain generic dewetting morphologies in thin liquid coatings. It demonstrates that by taking into account the elastic properties of the coating, a morphological phase diagram may be derived which describes the observed structures of dewetting fronts. It is demonstrated that dewetting morphologies may also serve to determine nanoscale rheological properties of liquids.

Keywords

VISCOELASTIC DEWETTING
DEWETTING MORPHOLOGIES
RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES
GENERIC MORPHOLOGIES
ELASTIC PROPERTIES
DEWETTING FRONTS
NANOSCALE

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Version 1, 2002-01-12, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 89 (5), 056101.

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