TY - JOUR AU - Persson, B. N. J. AU - Kovalev, A. AU - Wasem, M. AU - Gnecco, E. AU - Gorb, S.N. TI - Surface roughness of peeled adhesive tape: A mystery? JO - epl VL - 92 SN - 0295-5075 CY - Les Ulis PB - EDP Sciences M1 - PreJuSER-12967 SP - 46001 PY - 2010 N1 - We thank C. CRETON for useful communication. This work, as part of the European Science Foundation EUROCORES Program FANAS, was supported from funds by the DFG and the EC Sixth Framework Program, under contract N ERAS-CT-2003-980409. MW thanks G. FESSLER for introducing him to AFM. MW and EG thank E. MEYER for support. AB - We study the surface roughness of adhesive tape peeled in stick-slip. We find two regions: a smooth surface region associated with fast crack propagation and a rough surface region associated with slow crack propagation. In both regions the surfaces may be self-affine fractal-like with the fractal dimension D-f approximate to 2.3. This fractal dimension is typical for surfaces produced by crack propagation, but unexpected in the present case. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2010 KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000285455400018 DO - DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/92/46001 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/12967 ER -