Liquid-vapor phase-change processes are becoming increasingly important in a wide
variety of fields ranging from energy conversion, to microelectronics cooling, MEMs devices …

This book should prove to be the definitive work explaining van der Waals forces, how to
calculate them and take account of their impact under any circumstances and conditions …

The properties of soft-matter thin films (eg liquid films, polymer coatings, Langmuir-Blodgett
multilayers) nowadays play an important role in materials science. They are also very …

Understanding the role of thin films in porous media is vital to elucidate wettability at the
pore level. The type and thickness of films coating pore walls determine reservoir wettability …

This review article describes progress made in scanning force microscopy of polymers
during the last 5 years including fundamental principles of SFM and recent developments in …

Meticulously prepared, this reference offers an overview of achieved in gas-solid (G/S),
liquid-solid (L/S), and gas-liquid (G/L) adsorption research. It emphasizes the interpretation …

The surface properties and self‐adhesion mechanism of self‐healing poly (butyl
acrylate)(PBA) copolymers containing comonomers with 2‐ureido‐4 [1H]‐pyrimidinone …

Spin-coated polystyrene films thinner than the unperturbed size of themolecules on glass
substrates were studied by X-ray reflectometry. Detailed knowledge about the dewetting …

Dewetting of polystyrene films thinner than the end-to-end distance of the molecules on
glass substrates as a function of film thickness (h) and temperatures was investigated. The …

We report dielectric constant measurements showing critical fluctuation-induced thinning of
4 He films near the superfluid transition. The films are adsorbed on a stack of copper …