Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Adsorption-induced slip inhibition for polymer melts on ideal substrates

  • Mark Ilton,
  • Thomas Salez,
  • Paul D. Fowler,
  • Marco Rivetti,
  • Mohammed Aly,
  • Michael Benzaquen,
  • Joshua D. McGraw,
  • Elie Raphaël,
  • Kari Dalnoki-Veress,
  • Oliver Bäumchen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03610-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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When modeling fluid flow over a solid surface, one must determine the slip velocity at the boundary. Here Ilton et al. perform experiments to quantify the slip length of polymer melts at a nearly ideal solid surface and capture them in a model involving the density of physically adsorbed polymer chains.