The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films

Films formed through the drying of nanoparticle suspensions release the build-up of strain through a variety of different mechanisms including shear banding, crack formation and delamination. Here we show that important connections exist between these different phenomena: delamination depends on the...

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Main Authors: Yang, Bin, Sharp, James S., Smith, Mike I.
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Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35732/
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description Films formed through the drying of nanoparticle suspensions release the build-up of strain through a variety of different mechanisms including shear banding, crack formation and delamination. Here we show that important connections exist between these different phenomena: delamination depends on the dynamics of crack hopping, which in turn is influenced by the presence of shear bands. We also show that delamination does not occur uniformly across the film. As cracks hop they locally initiate the delamination of the film which warps with a timescale much longer than that associated with the hopping of cracks. The motion of a small region of the delamination front, where the shear component of interfacial crack propagation is believed to be enhanced, results in the deposition of a complex zig-zag pattern on the supporting substrate.
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spelling nottingham-357322020-05-04T18:05:53Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35732/ The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films Yang, Bin Sharp, James S. Smith, Mike I. Films formed through the drying of nanoparticle suspensions release the build-up of strain through a variety of different mechanisms including shear banding, crack formation and delamination. Here we show that important connections exist between these different phenomena: delamination depends on the dynamics of crack hopping, which in turn is influenced by the presence of shear bands. We also show that delamination does not occur uniformly across the film. As cracks hop they locally initiate the delamination of the film which warps with a timescale much longer than that associated with the hopping of cracks. The motion of a small region of the delamination front, where the shear component of interfacial crack propagation is believed to be enhanced, results in the deposition of a complex zig-zag pattern on the supporting substrate. Nature Publishing Group 2016-08-25 Article PeerReviewed Yang, Bin, Sharp, James S. and Smith, Mike I. (2016) The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films. Scientific Reports, 6 . e32296. ISSN 2045-2322 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep32296 doi:10.1038/srep32296 doi:10.1038/srep32296
spellingShingle Yang, Bin
Sharp, James S.
Smith, Mike I.
The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films
title The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films
title_full The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films
title_fullStr The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films
title_full_unstemmed The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films
title_short The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films
title_sort interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35732/
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