The free surface of a thin soft polymer film is often found to become unstable and self- organizes into various meso-scale structures. In this article we classify the instability of a thin …
Wetting of rough hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces is discussed. The stability of the Cassie state, with air trapped in relief details under the droplet, is necessary for the design of …
The transition between the Cassie and Wenzel wetting regimes has been observed under vertical vibration of a water drop placed on a rough micrometrically scaled polymer pattern …
M Rauscher, S Dietrich - Annu. Rev. Mater. Res., 2008 - annualreviews.org
We focus on the dynamical aspects of wetting phenomena on the nanoscale for which bulk hydrodynamic equations become invalid. At the nanoscale, phenomena that are irrelevant …
A superhydrophobic surface is produced from industrial grade polymer materials. The surface comprises partly disordered triple-scaled arrays of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) …
R Verma, A Sharma, K Kargupta, J Bhaumik - Langmuir, 2005 - ACS Publications
Electrostatic field induced instability, morphology, and patterning of a thin liquid film confined between two electrodes with an air gap are studied on the basis of nonlinear 3D simulations …
E Bormashenko, T Stein, R Pogreb… - The Journal of Physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Wetting properties of lycopodium-based surfaces are reported. The surfaces demonstrate high apparent contact angles accompanied by high adhesion of water droplets, similar to the …
We consider a thin film consisting of two layers of immiscible liquids on a solid horizontal (heated) substrate. Both the free liquid–liquid and the liquid–gas interface of such a bilayer …
L Xue, Y Han - Progress in Polymer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
Strategies for the utilization of dewetting of polymer thin film to fabricate ordered patterns are reviewed. After a brief introduction to the polymer thin film dewetting theory, simulation …