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Adhesion between a suspended polymeric film and a metallic substrate: Experiments and models

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This paper presents the results of a combined experimental, theoretical, and computational study of the adhesion between suspended polymeric films and a substrate in a model drug-eluting stent. Atomic force microscope is used to measure the pull-off force between the polymer and the substrate. The adhesion energy was then obtained from the measured pull-off forces and adhesion theories. Subsequently, the adhesion energy was incorporated into interfacial fracture mechanics zone model that was used to determine mode mixity dependence of the interfacial fracture toughness. The mode mixity-dependent fracture toughness conditions were then integrated into finite element models that were used to compute the critical push-out force of the suspended polymeric films. The predicted push-out forces were in good agreement with the results obtained from the experiments.

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Acknowledgments

The research was supported by the Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson Company, the NSF MRSEC program through the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (Grant DMR-0819860) and the Grand Challenges Program at Princeton University. The authors are grateful to Prof. Zhigang Suo of Harvard University, for useful technical discussions. We are also grateful to Dr. Nan Yao, Dr. Gerald R. Poirier, and Mr. Joe Palmer for their technical assistance.

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  1. Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA

    Jing Du, Emily Hampp, Wanliang Shan & Winston O. Soboyejo

  2. The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA

    Jing Du, Emily Hampp, Wanliang Shan & Winston O. Soboyejo

  3. Cordis Corporation, Johnson & Johnson Company, Spring House, Pennsylvania, 19477, USA

    Wanliang Shan, Hannah Li, George Papandreou & Cynthia A. Maryanoff

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

    Winston O. Soboyejo

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Du, J., Hampp, E., Shan, W. et al. Adhesion between a suspended polymeric film and a metallic substrate: Experiments and models. Journal of Materials Research 27, 1797–1805 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2012.178

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