Wetting phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and technology. A solid substrate exposed to
the environment is almost invariably covered by a layer of fluid material. In this review, the …

While the behaviour of large amounts of liquid is dictated by gravity, surface forces become
dominant at small scales. They have for example the remarkable ability to make droplets …

The status of our understanding of nucleation is reviewed. Both general aspects of
nucleation and those specific to protein solutions and colloidal suspensions are considered …

Crystals form via nucleation followed by growth. Often nucleation data are interpreted using
the classical theory of nucleation, which is essentially a simple theory for the nucleation of a …

In the past, perfect surfaces have been shown to yield local critical behaviour that differs
from bulk critical behaviour. On the other hand, surface defects, whether they are of natural …

We develop and harness a phase field simulation method to study liquid filling on grooved
surfaces. We consider both short-range and long-range liquid–solid interactions, with the …

We consider theoretically liquid rise against gravity in capillaries with height-dependent
cross-sections. For a conical capillary made from a hydrophobic surface and dipped in a …

Using Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size scaling methods we study “wetting” in Ising
systems in a L× L× L y pore with quadratic cross section. Antisymmetric surface fields H s act …

This review discusses Monte Carlo simulations of simple models for fluids and binary
mixtures (lattice gas, lattice models for binary polymer blends, Asakura-Oosawa model of …

We present numerical studies of complete, first-order and critical wedge filling transitions, at
a right angle corner, using a microscopic fundamental measure density functional theory …