The nanoconfinement effects of glassy polymer thin films on their thermal and mechanical
properties have been investigated thoroughly, especially with an emphasis on its altered …

Thin polymer films have striking dynamical properties that differ from their bulk counterparts.
With the simple geometry of a stepped polymer film on a substrate, we probe mobility above …

The phenomenon of thermocapillarity, the response of fluids to thermal gradients due to
thermal alteration of their surface tension, was first reported over a century ago. Since then …

Surface diffusion of molecular glasses is found to be orders of magnitude faster than bulk
diffusion, with a stronger dependence on the molecular size and intermolecular interactions …

Thin, viscous liquid films subjected to impact events can deform. Here we investigate free-
surface oil-film deformations that arise owing to the build up of air under the impacting and …

We present results on the leveling of polymer microdroplets on thin films prepared from the
same material. In particular, we explore the crossover from a droplet spreading on an …

The capillary levelling of cylindrical holes in viscous polystyrene films was studied using
atomic force microscopy as well as quantitative analytical scaling arguments based on thin …

Recent studies have shown that diffusion on the surface of organic glasses can be many
orders of magnitude faster than bulk diffusion. Developing new probes that can readily …

Classical hydrodynamic models predict that infinite work is required to move a three-phase
contact line, defined here as the line where a liquid/vapor interface intersects a solid surface …

We report on the numerical implementation of thin-film equations that describe the capillary-
driven evolution of viscous films, in two-dimensional configurations. After recalling the …