Abstract
The failure of interfaces between a series of styrene-butadiene random linear monodisperse polymer melts was investigated with a contact mechanics method. A thin (1μm) and a thick (150μm) film of the same polymer were deposited on a metallic cylindrical probe and on a glass slide, respectively. The two films were put in contact for up to 1000s in a very confined geometry and the mechanical strength of interfaces formed in these conditions was then characterized by separating the probe from the glass slide. We observed different deformation micromechanisms of the layers depending on the time of contact, the debonding velocity, and the polymer used. We found that these different behaviors could be represented in a general deformation map as a function of two reduced parameters: the ratio between the contact time and the reptation time and the Deborah number. For values of De Decrit, two regimes were obse...
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