Low cost, controlled crystallinity, chemical, and mechanical stability enable application of
polymers in energy, water, electronics, and biomedical industries. Recent studies have …

Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …

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 …

The present study investigates the combined influence of slip boundary condition and non-
Newtonian lubricants on the tribological performance of hydrodynamic textured journal …

Recent progress in submicron-and nano-fabrication technologies has led to the emergence
of novel photonic structures such as optical nanoantennas and metasurfaces. Real-life …

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 …

Using a dynamic surface force apparatus (SFA), we demonstrate that the notion of slip
length used to describe the boundary flow of simple liquids is not appropriate for viscoelastic …

In the midst of an exciting era of polymer nanoscience, where the development of materials
and understanding of properties at the nanoscale remain a major R&D endeavor, there are …

Ic ¼ wct3 c/12 Moment of inertia of the cantilever m4 J ¼ 1/E Compliance Pa À1 K Bulk
modulus Pa kc Elastic constant of the cantilever N/m keff ¼ kcks/(kc+ ks) Effective elastic …