Effect of Interfacial Adsorption on the Stability of Thin Polymer Films in a Solvent-induced Process

Lin Xu; Tong-Fei Shi; Li-Jia An; Yu-Yuan Lu; Li-Na Wang

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Effect of Interfacial Adsorption on the Stability of Thin Polymer Films in a Solvent-induced Process

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- Effect of Interfacial Adsorption on the Stability of Thin Polymer Films in a Solvent-induced Process
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 39, Issue 4, Pages: 501-511(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
  b.State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
  c.Testing and Analysis Center, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
- Author bio：
  
  yylu@ciac.ac.cn (Y.Y.L.)
  lnwang1007@163.com (L.N.W.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-020-2493-8
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- Received：16 July 2020，
  
  Revised：2020-7-31，
  
  Accepted：07 August 2020，
  
  Online First：04 October 2020，
  
  Published：01 January 2021
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Xu, L.; Shi, T. F.; An, L. J.; Lu, Y. Y.; Wang, L. N. Effect of interfacial adsorption on the stability of thin polymer films in a solvent-induced process. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 501–511

Lin Xu, Tong-Fei Shi, Li-Jia An, et al. Effect of Interfacial Adsorption on the Stability of Thin Polymer Films in a Solvent-induced Process[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(4): 501-511.
Xu, L.; Shi, T. F.; An, L. J.; Lu, Y. Y.; Wang, L. N. Effect of interfacial adsorption on the stability of thin polymer films in a solvent-induced process. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 501–511 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2493-8.

Lin Xu, Tong-Fei Shi, Li-Jia An, et al. Effect of Interfacial Adsorption on the Stability of Thin Polymer Films in a Solvent-induced Process[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(4): 501-511. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2493-8.

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The stability of ultrathin polymer films plays a crucial role in their technological applications. Here

we systematically investigated the influence of interfacial adsorption in physical aging and the stability of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process. We further identify the stability mechanism from the theory of thin film stability. Our results show that the aging temperature and film thickness can strongly influence the stability of thin PS films in acetone vapor. Physical aging can greatly improve the stability of thin polymer films when the aging temperature

aging1

. A thinner PS film more quickly reaches a stable state

via

physical aging. At short aging time

the formation of the adsorbed layer can reduce the polar interaction; however

it slightly influences the stability of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process. At later aging stage

the conformational rearrangement of the polymer chains induced by the interfacial effect at the aging temperature

aging1

plays an important role in stabilizing the thin polymer films. However

aging2

the process of physical aging slightly influences the stability of the thin polymer films. The formation of the adsorbed layer at

aging2

can reduce the short-range polar interaction of the thin film system and cannot suppress the instability of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process. These results provide further insight into the stable mechanism of thin polymer films in the solvent-induced process.

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