Issue 37, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Polymer dewetting via stimuli responsive structural relaxation—contact angle analysis†

Xiumin Ma,a   Rene Crombez,a   Md. Ashaduzzaman,b   Masashi Kunitake,b   Lisa Slater,c   Thomas Moureyc  and  John Texter*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Coating Research Institute, School of Engineering Technology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, USA
E-mail: jtexter@emich.edu
Tel: +1 734 487 2203

b New Frontier Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

c Corporate Research and Engineering, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, USA

Abstract

Thin films of a stimuli-responsive homopolymer dewet as a stimulus response after anion exchange of the imidazolium's counter anion. Contact angle analysis and interfacial energy considerations indicate dewetting goes counter to increasing spreading coefficient. Intrafilm stress arising from structural relaxation drives the dewetting.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC12656C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 May 2011
Accepted
18 Jul 2011
First published
17 Aug 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 10356-10358

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Polymer dewetting via stimuli responsive structural relaxation—contact angle analysis

X. Ma, R. Crombez, Md. Ashaduzzaman, M. Kunitake, L. Slater, T. Mourey and J. Texter, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 10356 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC12656C

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