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Adhesion behavior of polymer networks with tailored mechanical properties using spherical and flat contacts

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Four acrylate-based networks were developed such that they possessed similar glass transition temperature (∼− 37 °C) but varied in material stiffness at room temperature by an order of magnitude (2–12 MPa). Thermo-mechanical and adhesion testing were performed to investigate the effect of elastic modulus on adhesion profiles of the developed samples. Adhesion experiments with a spherical probe revealed no dependency of the pull-off force on material modulus as predicted by the Johnson, Kendall, and Roberts theory. Results obtained using a flat probe showed that the pull-off force increases linearly with an increase in the material modulus, which matches very well with Kendall’s theory.

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This project has been partly funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung and by the German Science Foundation (DFG SPP1420).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, 82071, USA

    Nishant Lakhera & Carl P. Frick

  2. INM—Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Functional Surfaces Group, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Annalena Graucob

  3. INM—Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Metallic Microstructures Group, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Andreas S. Schneider

  4. Functional Surfaces Group, INM—Leibniz Institute for New Materials, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Elmar Kroner, Maurizio Micciché & Eduard Arzt

  5. Metallic Microstructures Group, INM—Leibniz Institute for New Materials, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Eduard Arzt

  6. Saarland University, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Eduard Arzt

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Lakhera, N., Graucob, A., Schneider, A.S. et al. Adhesion behavior of polymer networks with tailored mechanical properties using spherical and flat contacts. MRS Communications 3, 73–77 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2013.3

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