In the most influential monograph on colloid and interfacial science by Adamson three
fundamental equations of “physical chemistry of surfaces” are identified: the Laplace …

Thin polymer films on hydrophobic substrates are susceptible to rupture and hole formation.
This, in turn, initiates a complex dewetting process, which ultimately leads to characteristic …

A uniform nanometric thin liquid film on a solid substrate can become unstable due to the
action of van der Waals (vdW) forces. The instability leads to dewetting of the uniform film …

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 …

An approach for the fabrication of functional polymer surface coatings is introduced, where
micro-scale structure and surface functionality are obtained by means of self-assembly …

The slippage of polymer solutions on solid surfaces is often attributed to a depletion layer
whose origin, thickness, and interaction with the flow are poorly understood. Using a …

Dewetting experiments on molten spherulites, previously grown at T c= 120° C in thin films
of isotactic polypropylene (iPP), revealed two kinds of instabilities of the dewetting rims …

Distributed thin films of water and their coexistence with droplets are investigated using a
capillary description based on a thermodynamic fundamental relation for the film Helmholtz …

We present an experimental method allowing to quantify slip at the wall in viscous polymer
fluids, based on the observation of the evolution under simple shear flow of a photobleached …

We performed systematic dewetting experiments on isotactic poly (para-methylstyrene)(iP p
MS) films to explore the temperature dependence of the viscoelastic behavior of these films …