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| - Pretransitional thinning of a polymer wetting layer
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| - Mixtures of two immiscible polymers A and B phase-separate into A-rich ( α) and B-rich ( β) phases. Thin films of such mixtures exhibit a transition from an equilibrium 3-layer structure (substrate/ $\alpha/\beta/\alpha$/air) to a 2-layer structure (substrate/ $\beta/\alpha$/air) as the surface energy of the substrate is increased. In this letter we show that as an (equilibrium) precursor to this transition, the thickness of the α layer in the 3-layer structure at the substrate/polymer interface decreases, while that of the α layer against air increases until the α layer against the substrate vanishes leaving the 2-layer structure. This pretransitional behavior originates from the long-range nature of the van der Waals interaction between layers and is predicted by a simple model that considers the dependence of the free energies of the two α layers on their thicknesses.
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