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Studies On The Wrinkling Of Thin Polymer Films Floating On Liquid, Kamil B. Toga
Studies On The Wrinkling Of Thin Polymer Films Floating On Liquid, Kamil B. Toga
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation aims to broaden our understanding on wrinkling instabilities occurring on floating polymeric sheets, and tries to establish innovative methods that exploit these patterns in studies on material behavior and interfacial phenomena. We will address three major topics in this thesis including, i) characterization of the conditions required to buckle an annular disc, ii) characterization of wrinkles occurring around a droplet/bubble placed on a membrane that is kept taut at the liquid-air interface, and iii) using wrinkling patterns as a probe to understand the interfacial behavior and dynamics of ultrathin films. The first project in this thesis is about …