2001/05/03 by Daniel Podzimek, Annemarie Saier, Podzimek, Daniel +7
Chemical Engineering · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties #FOS: Physical sciences #Metallurgy and Material Forming #Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0105065
3 pages, 3 figures, text in revtex format
arxiv created 2001/05/03 · openalex publication_date 2001/05/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is shown that the intrinsic stress in solvent cast polymer coatings plays a key role in the nucleation of holes in the film. Nucleation is important because it is meanwhile clear that heterogeneous nucleation is the only relevant rupture mechanism for the technologically relevant thickness regime well above 100 nm. The most striking feature is that in contrast to what has been widely believed, the number density of holes scales not algebraically, but exponentially with the film thickness.