Interfacial Phenomena - Topics and Keywords
The first four topics address the critical behavior associated with
partial-to-complete wetting transitions, a classical subject.
The last two topics
on "Morphological wetting transitions" and "Wetting of membranes"
represent rather recent developments.
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Critical surface behavior at first-order phase transitions
Surface-induced order and disorder, surface melting, order parameters,
semi-infinite systems, Potts models.
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Complete wetting as an interfacial phase transition
Thick wetting layers, vanishing contact angles, effective interface
models, interfacial fluctuations, renormalized interactions of interfaces.
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Partial-to-complete wetting transitions
Small and vanishing contact angles, unbinding transitions of interfaces,
strong and weak fluctuation regimes, functional renormalization.
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Growth of wetting layers
Growth by vapor deposition, diffusion-limited
growth, growth laws for time evolution of layer thickness.
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Surfaces and interfaces in quasi-periodic systems
Incommensurate crystals, ideal and random quasicrystals, reduced and increased interfacial roughness.
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Structured surfaces and morphological wetting transitions
Chemically and topographically structured surfaces, circular and striped surface domains,
surface grooves.
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Wetting of membranes and vesicles
Effective and intrinsic contact angles, complete-to-partial wetting transitions,
membrane nanotubes induced by aqueous phase separation.
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