It has been a long-standing question whether dewetting of polymer film from non-wettable substrate surfaceswherein the bicontinuous morphology never forms in the dewetting film is due to spinodal instability or heterogeneousnucleation. In this experiment
we use a simple method to make the distinction through introduction of topographical defectsof the films by rubbing the sample surface with a rayon cloth. Spinodal dewetting is identified for those films that dewet by acharateristic wavevector
q*
independent of the density of rubbing-induced defects.Heterogeneous nucleation
on the other hand
is identified for those with q* increasing with increasing density of defects.Our result shows that PS films on oxide coated silicon with thickness less than ≈13 nm are dominated by spinodal dewetting
but the thicker films are dominated by nucleation dewetting.We also confirm that spinodal dewetting does not necessarily lead to a bicontinuous morphology in the dewetting film
contrary to the classic theory of Cahn.
Abstract
It has been a long-standing question whether dewetting of polymer film from non-wettable substrate surfaceswherein the bicontinuous morphology never forms in the dewetting film is due to spinodal instability or heterogeneousnucleation. In this experiment
we use a simple method to make the distinction through introduction of topographical defectsof the films by rubbing the sample surface with a rayon cloth. Spinodal dewetting is identified for those films that dewet by acharateristic wavevector
q*
independent of the density of rubbing-induced defects.Heterogeneous nucleation
on the other hand
is identified for those with q* increasing with increasing density of defects.Our result shows that PS films on oxide coated silicon with thickness less than ≈13 nm are dominated by spinodal dewetting
but the thicker films are dominated by nucleation dewetting.We also confirm that spinodal dewetting does not necessarily lead to a bicontinuous morphology in the dewetting film
contrary to the classic theory of Cahn.
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