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Fabrication of Large-area Free-standing Ultrathin Polymer Films
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Preparation of ultra-thin elastomeric films
Hamza K Khattak1, Guanhua Lu2, Lauren A Dutcher1
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M1, Canada.
The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter
|May 12, 2023
Abstract:
When polydimethylsiloxane elastomers are produced, in the absence of great care, chains remain that are unbound to the cross-linked matrix. Due to the unbound chains swelling the crosslinked matrix, these materials are gels. We have developed a simple process to prepare well-controlled elastomeric thin films which do not rely on unknown commercial formulations.
