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12 papers
Flow-injection of branched polymers inside nanopores
Takahiro Sakaue, Elie Raphaël, Pierre-Gilles De Gennes +1
Flexible chains (linear or branched) can be forced to enter into a narrow capillary by using a hydrodynamic flow. Here, we correct our earlier description of this problem by consid…
Dewetting of thin-film polymers
F. Saulnier, E. Raphael, P. -G. de Gennes
In this paper we present a theoretical model for the dewetting of ultra-thin polymer films. Assumming that the shear-thinning properties of these films can be described by a Cross-…
A Scaling Theory of the Competition between Interdiffusion and Cross-Linking at Polymer Interfaces
Achod Aradian, Elie Raphael, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
We study theoretically situations where competition arises between an interdiffusion process and a cross-linking chemical reaction at interfaces between pieces of the same polymer…
Dewetting of thin polymer films near the glass transition
F. Saulnier, E. Raphael, P. -G. de Gennes
Dewetting of ultra-thin polymer films near the glass transition exhibits unexpected front morphologies [G. Reiter, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 186101 (2001)]. We present here the first t…
Surface flows of granular materials: A short introduction to some recent models
Achod Aradian, Elie Raphael, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
We present a short review of recent theoretical descriptions of flows occuring at the surface of granular piles, and focus mainly on two models: the phenomenological ``BCRE'' model…
Solvent evaporation of spin cast films: crust effects
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
When a glassy polymer film is formed by evaporation, the region near the free surface is polymer rich and becomes glassy first, as noticed long ago by Scriven et al. We discuss the…