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Thin Liquid Films - Dewetting and Polymer Flow (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Thin Liquid Films - Dewetting and Polymer Flow (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
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This book is a treatise on the thermodynamic and dynamic properties
of thin liquid films at solid surfaces and, in particular, their
rupture instabilities. For the quantitative study of these
phenomena, polymer thin films (sometimes referred to as
"ultrathin") have proven to be an invaluable experimental model
system. What is it that makes thin film instabilities special and
interesting? First, thin polymeric films have an important range of
applications. An understanding of their instabilities is therefore
of practical relevance for the design of such films. The first
chapter of the book intends to give a snapshot of current
applications, and an outlook on promising future ones. Second, thin
liquid films are an interdisciplinary research topic, which leads
to a fairly heterogeneous community working on the topic. It
justifies attempting to write a text which gives a coherent
presentation of the field which researchers across their
specialized communities might be interested in. Finally, thin
liquid films are an interesting laboratory for a theorist to
confront a well-established theory, hydrodynamics, with its limits.
Thin films are therefore a field in which a highly fruitful
exchange and collaboration exists between experimentalists and
theorists. The book stretches from the more concrete to more
abstract levels of study: we roughly progress from applications via
theory and experiment to rigorous mathematical theory. For an
experimental scientist, the book should serve as a reference and
guide to what is the current consensus of the theoretical
underpinnings of the field of thin film dynamics. Controversial
problems on which such a consensus has not yet been reached are
clearly indicated in the text, as well as discussed in a final
chapter. From a theoretical point of view, the field of dewetting
has mainly been treated in a mathematically 'light' yet elegant
fashion, often making use of scaling arguments. For the untrained
researcher, this approach is not always easy to follow. The present
book attempts to bridge between the 'light' and the 'rigorous',
always with the ambition to enhance insight and understanding - and
to not let go the elegance of the theory.
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