| Issue |
EPL
Volume 77, Number 4, February 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 48002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/77/48002 | |
| Published online | 25 January 2007 | |
Case-II diffusion and solvent-polymer films drying: A meso-scale model
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, UMR 8502 CNRS/Université de Paris sud - Bât. 510, 91405 Orsay Cédex, France
Corresponding author: long@lps.u-psud.fr
Received:
28
August
2006
Accepted:
12
December
2006
We propose a model for calculating a constitutive relation for the dynamics of solvent-polymer systems close to the glass transition. We do it by considering a layer of thickness 
of a few nanometers which is submitted to an arbitrary time varying solvent activity 
. We show then how these constitutive relations allow to explain case-II diffusion in glassy polymers and provide a physical interpretation for the parameters of the Thomas-Windle model. Regarding the process of film drying, we show that films up to 
thick can be almost completely dried in an accessible experimental time, even at temperatures well below the polymer glass transition temperature. When drying a thicker film, we show that a glassy crust may appear on the free surface, as has been shown experimentally.
PACS: 83.80.Rs – Polymer solutions / 66.20.+d – Viscosity of liquids; diffusive momentum transport / 61.41.+e – Polymers, elastomers, and plastics
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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