The dynamics and stability of thin liquid films have fascinated scientists over many decades:
the observations of regular wave patterns in film flows down a windowpane or along …

Experimental research on wetting in polymer films is a subject that is reaching maturity. We
review progress from the past few years in research into the influence of a boundary in …

Many animals that locomote by legs possess adhesive pads. Such organs are rapidly
releasable and adhesive forces can be controlled during walking and running. This capacity …

Thin liquid films on non-wettable solid surfaces are not stable; rather, they are transformed
by a symmetry-breaking process termeddewetting'into their equilibrium state, a set of …

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 …

We focus on the dynamical aspects of wetting phenomena on the nanoscale for which bulk
hydrodynamic equations become invalid. At the nanoscale, phenomena that are irrelevant …

Unstable thin liquid films on solid substrates dewet by hole nucleation on defects or by a
linear surface instability (spinodal dewetting). A system with destabilizing short-range and …

The stability of thin liquid coatings plays a fundamental role in everyday life. We studied the
stability conditions of thin (3 to 300 nm) liquid polymer films on various substrates. The key …

We consider a thin film consisting of two layers of immiscible liquids on a solid horizontal
(heated) substrate. Both the free liquid–liquid and the liquid–gas interface of such a bilayer …

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 …