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 …

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 …

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 …

The behavior of a thin liquid film on a uniformly heated substrate is considered. When the
substrate is horizontal and the Marangoni number sufficiently large the film breaks up into a …

We study the dewetting process of a thin liquid film on a chemically patterned solid substrate
(template) by means of a thin-film evolution equation incorporating a space-dependent …

In the present contribution we review basic mathematical results for three physical systems
involving self-organizing solid or liquid films at solid surfaces. The films may undergo a …

We have achieved highly localized control of pattern formation in two-dimensional
nanoparticle assemblies by direct modification of solvent dewetting dynamics. A striking …

We investigate the creation of large area mesoscale structures by controlling the dewetting
pathways of thin polymer films on physically heterogeneous substrates comprising a two …

The role of essential, real life thin film complexities such as antagonistic (attractive and
repulsive) interactions, retardation of van der Waals force, substrate and film …

We study the dewetting process of thin fluid films that partially wet a solid surface. Using a
long-wave (lubrication) approximation, we formulate a nonlinear partial differential equation …