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Molecular Weight Dependence of Spreading Rates of Ultrathin Polymeric Films | | M.P.Valignat
; G.Oshanin
; S.Villette
; A.M.Cazabat
; M.Moreau
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24 Apr 1998 | | Journal: | PRL 80, 5377 (1998) | | Subject: | Soft Condensed Matter; Materials Science | cond-mat.soft cond-mat.mtrl-sci | | Affiliation: | 2,3), S.Villette, A.M.Cazabat and M.Moreau ( LPMC, College de France, France; LPTL, Universite Paris 6, France; CRMM, Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium | | Abstract: | We study experimentally the molecular weight $M$ dependence of spreading rates of molecularly thin precursor films, growing at the bottom of droplets of polymer liquids. In accord with previous observations, we find that the radial extension R(t) of the film grows with time as R(t) = (D_{exp} t)^{1/2}. Our data substantiate the M-dependence of D_{exp}; we show that it follows D_{exp} sim M^{-gamma}, where the exponent gamma is dependent on the chemical composition of the solid surface, determining its frictional properties with respect to the molecular transport. In the specific case of hydrophilic substrates, the frictional properties can be modified by the change of the relative humidity (RH). We find that gamma approx 1 at low RH and tends to zero when RH gets progressively increased. We propose simple theoretical arguments which explain the observed behavior in the limits of low and high RH. | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/9804270 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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