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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 11, 期 37, 页码 8136-8143出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b906281p
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- National Science Foundation [NSF-DMI-0449258, NSF-CMMI-0855949, NSF-DMR-0856707]
Nanometre thick metallic liquid films on inert substrates can spontaneously dewet and self-organize into complex nanomorphologies and nanostructures with well-defined length scales. Nanosecond pulses of an ultraviolet laser can capture the dewetting evolution and ensuing nanomorphologies, as well as introduce dramatic changes to dewetting length scales due to the nanoscopic nature of film heating. Here, we show theoretically that the self-organization principle, based on equating the rate of transfer of thermodynamic free energy to rate of loss in liquid flow, accurately describes the spontaneous dewetting. Experimental measurements of laser dewetting of Ag and Co liquid films on SiO2 substrates confirm this principle. This energy transfer approach could be useful for analyzing the behavior of nanomaterials and chemical processes in which spontaneous changes are important.
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