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Deposition Sciences Inc. - Difficult Coatings - LB - 8/23

The Science of a Nearly Full Retreat

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Lynn Savage, Features Editor, [email protected]

When a liquid film meets a solid surface, all heck breaks loose as film particles cling, drag, shift, lift upward and, eventually, settle. If, however, the particles don’t attach firmly enough, they may be prone to lifting off the surface material again in large swaths. Examples of this are when water bubbles up on a freshly waxed car or when paint blisters on a wall that was not prepared well in advance. Another is when the photoactive material used to coat a substrate destined to be turned into a microelectronic device bubbles up erratically, ruining the pattern later inscribed on the...Read full article

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    Published: February 2009
    Basic ScienceCoatingsConsumerenergyFeaturesfilm particlesindustrialliquid filmmicroelectronic deviceMicroscopy

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