Wrinkling of floating thin polymer films

This thesis presents an extensive study of wrinkling of thin polystyrene films, tens of nanometers in thickness, floating on the surface of water or water modified with surfactant. First, we study the wrinkling of floating thin polystyrene films under a capillary force exerted by a drop of water pla...

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Main Author: Huang, Jiangshui
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2010
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3427535