Adhesion behavior of polymer networks with tailored mechanical properties using spherical and flat contacts

Autor: Andreas S. Schneider, Nishant Lakhera, Maurizio Micciché, Carl P. Frick, Annalena Graucob, Elmar Kroner, Eduard Arzt
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: MRS Communications. 3:73-77
ISSN: 2159-6867
2159-6859
DOI: 10.1557/mrc.2013.3
Popis: Four acrylate-based networks were developed such that they possessed similar glass transition temperature (∼− 37 °C) but varied in material stiffness at room temperature by an order of magnitude (2–12 MPa). Thermo-mechanical and adhesion testing were performed to investigate the effect of elastic modulus on adhesion profiles of the developed samples. Adhesion experiments with a spherical probe revealed no dependency of the pull-off force on material modulus as predicted by the Johnson, Kendall, and Roberts theory. Results obtained using a flat probe showed that the pull-off force increases linearly with an increase in the material modulus, which matches very well with Kendall’s theory.
Databáze: OpenAIRE