Abstract
Despite an extensive number of investigations, it is becoming increasingly obvious that a clear understanding of thin polymer film properties has not yet been reached. The origin of (some of) the puzzling behavior of thin polymer films is still not satisfactorily unveiled. At present, we are still missing a consistent understanding of how film preparation and confinement affect film properties, in particular on approaching the glass transition temperature. While it may be disputable if the change from the initial solution to a dry glassy film introduces a “conformational state” with its “own” properties, we will present various findings, mainly observed in dewetting experiments, which demonstrate the influence of sample preparation and of the thermal history these films have undergone. We conclude that thickness is not the only parameter defining the properties of thin polymer films, i.e., they depend in addition on what happened to a film before a particular measurement was performed.
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I am highly indebted to Françoise Brochard and the late Pierre-Gilles de Gennes for many invaluable discussions. I wish to thank Rajesh Khanna, Samer Al Akhrass, Pascal Damman, Mithun Chowdhury, Ulli Steiner, Thomas Vilmin, Falko Ziebert, and Elie Raphaël for the fruitful collaborations which are at the base of the here presented results. I am grateful to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (RE2273/3-1) for funding of the most recent part of this work and partial financial support from the European Community’s Marie-Curie Actions’’ under contract MRTN-CT-2004-504052 [POLYFILM] for the earlier stage of the work.
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Reiter, G. (2015). History Dependent Temporal Changes of Properties of Thin Polymer Films. In: Napolitano, S. (eds) Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Confined Soft Matter. Soft and Biological Matter. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21948-6_1
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