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Paper
Migration of liquid polymers on solid surfaces
Abstract
Migration of very thin ( <30 nm) polymeric films on solid surfaces was investigated quantitatively using two techniques-scanning microellipsometry and scanning small spot x-ray photoemission spectroscopy. The surface diffusion coefficient Ds increases as the film thickness decreases down to 1 nm, however, below 1 nm, Ds becomes independent of polymer film thickness. The functional dependence of Ds with molecular weight M is described, over the limited range of M in the unentangled regime, by M -1.7 The activation energy for polymer segment hopping is about 41 kJ/mol, which is similar to values obtained from bulk self-diffusion of other polymers. © 1990 American Institute of Physics.