The wetting of porous templates with polymer melts and solutions or polymer‐containing
mixtures is a simple and versatile method for the preparation of tubular structures with …

This review deals with a variety of the processes proceeding in polymer blends at the
interface with solids. By the contact of a polymer blend with a solid surface, the …

Dewetting of polystyrene films on a silicon substrate is investigated as a function of film
thickness h. We observe the nucleation of holes in the early stage of dewetting for relatively …

The problem of spontaneous evolution of morphological patterns in thin (< 100 nm) unstable
liquid films on homogeneous solid substrates is resolved based on a 3D nonlinear equation …

Polymer coatings often contain degradation-susceptible regions, and corrosion of the
metallic substrate can occur directly underneath these regions. In this paper, the …

Dispersion forces are present everywhere. Their importance, however, is largely neglected
because directly at a surface or at an interface they are mostly weak compared with specific …

We report the use of solvent vapor swelling of ultrathin polymer films to determine Flory–
Huggins solvent–polymer and polymer–polymer interaction parameters (χ i–j) for poly (3 …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM), neutron reflection (NR) and secondary ion mass
spectroscopy (SIMS) are used to examine phase separation in symmetrically segregating …

Surface treatment and solvent evaporation control are used to promote vertical segregation
in polyfluorene-blend thin films. This surface-mediated control of the compositional structure …

Neutron reflectometry is used to measure polymer mobility over distances less than 200 Å as
a function of distance from an attractive solid surface and molecular size. Effective diffusion …