Thin films in partial wetting: stability, dewetting and coarsening
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 and the formation of drops. To minimize the total free energy of the system, these drops coarsen over time until one...
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Cambridge University Press
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119024 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3505-9718 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3958-7382 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-7496 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8323-2779 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7370-2332 |