Wetting phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and technology. A solid substrate exposed to
the environment is almost invariably covered by a layer of fluid material. In this review, the …

The wetting of solids by liquids is connected to physical chemistry (wettability), to statistical
physics (pinning of the contact line, wetting transitions, etc.), to long-range forces (van der …

Roughly at the time (1987) when the manuscript for the first three chapters of the present
book was completed, several breakthroughs occurred. They had a profound influence on the …

This review addresses recent developments in non-equilibrium statistical physics. Focusing
on phase transitions from fluctuating phases into absorbing states, the universality class of …

Kinetic interfaces form the basis of a fascinating, interdisciplinary branch of statistical
mechanics. Diverse stochastic growth processes can be unified via an intriguing nonlinear …

This invaluable book explores the delicate interplay between geometry and statistical
mechanics in materials such as microemulsions, wetting and growth interfaces, bulk …

The roughness of the liquid-vapor interface for pure water was measured by a technique of x-
ray reflectivity. With synchrotron radiation (λ∼ 1.5 ÅA), the angular dependence of the x-ray …

When a liquid droplet is put onto a surface, two situations distinguishable by the contact
angle may result. If the contact angle is zero, the droplet spreads across the surface, a …

Abstract Domain walls in magnets, vortex lattices in superconductors, contact lines at
depinning, and many other systems can be modeled as an elastic system subject to …

We consider the asymptotic decay of structural correlations in pure fluids, fluid mixtures, and
fluids subject to various types of inhomogeneity. For short ranged potentials, both the form …