Here is a treatise on the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of thin liquid films at solid surfaces, particularly their rupture instabilities. The authors balance 'light' and 'rigorous' mathematical approaches, always conveying the elegance of the theory.

Unique coherent compendium of the theoretical underpinnings of thin film dynamics, in particular their instabilities Presents a large range of applications of existing thin polymeric films, as well as an outlook on promising future ones Written for researchers across all interdisciplinary fields connected to thin films Bridges between the 'light' and the more rigorous theoretical approaches to dewetting phenomena Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Ralf Blossey is a statistical physicist. Throughout the roughly first ten years of his career, his research was mainly on wetting phenomena, in particular on the dynamic behaviour near first-order transitions in various physical systems. In the new millennium his interest shifted towards biophysical applications of statistical physics, the two main lines being processes related to gene regulation and macromolecular electrostatics. In the period 2003-2013 he directed a research team at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Lille under its former name ' Biological Nanosystems '. In 2014, the team joined the research laboratory on glycobiology UGSF.

Inhalt
Applications of Thin Films.- Statistical Mechanics of Thin Films.- Capillarity and Surface Tension.- Forces acting on Interfaces.- Wetting and Dewetting.- The Solid-Liquid Boundary.- Polymers as Thin Films: Glass Transition.- Hydrodynamics of Thin Films.- Lubrication Approximation for Viscous Thin Films.- Film Rupture.- Rims.- Fluctuations in Thin Films.- Visco-elastic Thin Films.- Mathematics of Thin-Film Equations.- Existence and Regularity of Solutions to Thin Film Equations.- Numerics for Thin-Film Equations.