The generation of nano-microstructured polymer film surfaces has been a challenge during
the last decades. Advances in the fabrication of structured polymer surfaces to obtain micro …

The free surface of a thin soft polymer film is often found to become unstable and self-
organizes into various meso-scale structures. In this article we classify the instability of a thin …

We have studied the spreading of phospholipid vesicles on photochemically patterned n-
octadecylsiloxane monolayers using epifluorescence and imaging ellipsometry …

This is a brief review of our recent and ongoing work on simple, rapid, room temperature,
pressure-less and large area (∼ cm 2) imprinting techniques for high fidelity meso …

The dewetting process of thin polystyrene (PS) film with built-in ordered disturbance by
capillary force lithography (CFL) has been investigated in situ by AFM. Two different …

Instabilities of thin wetting films show different dewetting dynamics when supported by
different solid substrates. Unstable thin films on the homogeneous substrate are studied …

Patterning dewetting of a nanoscale polymer film on a brush layer is investigated by many-
body dissipative particle dynamics. Four types of autophobic dewetting phenomena are …

In contrast to conventional patterning methodologies, the use of surface instabilities to
pattern polymer surfaces does not require expensive equipment or long and multistep …

We present results from a comprehensive numerical study of morphological phase
separation (MPS) in unstable thin liquid films on a 2-dimensional substrate. We study the …

Ultra-thin polymer films become unstable due to various types of interaction forces like van
der Waals interaction, steric forces, molecular level recoiling, sudden release of residual …