The instability, dynamics, and morphological transitions of patterns in thin liquid films on
physically and chemically heterogeneous patterned surfaces are investigated on the basis …

Wetting transitions and their closely related cousins of capillary condensation and filling are
found all around us. This article provides an overview of the key ideas and issues related to …

Surface directed instability and dewetting in thin films and resulting morphologies are
studied using 3D nonlinear simulations based on the equations of motion, both for the …

The spontaneous pattern formation and morphological transitions in thin liquid films on
chemically heterogeneous, periodic patterned surfaces are studied based on nonlinear …

Using an interface displacement model derived from a microscopic density functional theory
we investigate thin liquid-like wetting layers adsorbed on flat substrates with an embedded …

The geometry of walls forming a narrow pore may qualitatively affect the phase behavior of
the confined fluid. Specifically, the nature of condensation in nanopores formed of …

Even simple fluids on simple substrates can exhibit very rich surface phase behaviour. To
illustrate this, we consider fluid adsorption on a planar wall chemically patterned with a deep …

We study bridging transitions between a pair of nonplanar surfaces. We show that the
transition can be described using a generalized Kelvin equation by map** the system to a …

We study wetting and filling of patterned surfaces by a nematic liquid crystal. We focus on
three important classes of periodic surfaces: triangular, sinusoidal and rectangular. The …

We consider capillary condensation in a deep groove of width L. The transition occurs at a
pressure p co (L) described, for large widths, by the Kelvin equation p sat− p co (L) …