The phenomenon of thermocapillarity, the response of fluids to thermal gradients due to
thermal alteration of their surface tension, was first reported over a century ago. Since then …

It is well known that thermal field would cause instability on a two-fluid interface due to the
Marangoni effect. This phenomenon is also referred to as thermocapillary flow. A thin …

Thermocapillary patterning, namely, the formation of micro/nano patterns in a liquid film by
surface deformation induced by an imposed thermal gradient, has enjoyed widespread …

Thermoplastic polymer micro-and nanostructures suffer pattern decay when heated to a
temperature close to or above the polymer's glass transition temperature. In this work, we …

It is well known that surface tension is dependent on temperature, and thus a nonuniform
temperature may cause thermocapillary flow which is referred to as the Marangoni effect. For …

The underlying mechanism of thermal induced patterning is investigated using a numerical
phase-field model. Research on the subject has been mostly restricted to lubrication …

Marangoni flow occurs when a fluid-fluid free surface is exposed to a non-uniform thermal
field. Recently, Marangoni flow has been used to fabricate micro/nano-structures in thin …

The dynamics, instability, and pattern formation of thermally triggered thin liquid films are
investigated numerically under a long-wave limit approximation. To determine the …

Deformation of thin viscous liquid films exposed to a transverse thermal gradient results in
Bénard–Marangoni instability, which would lead to the formation of micro-and nano-sized …

Based on a computational model involving finite element method, we report the
morphological evolution and pattern formation process in a thin polymer film subject to an …