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 …

In this paper we review simulation and experimental studies of thermal capillary wave
fluctuations as an ideal means for probing the underlying disjoining pressure and surface …

Previous treatments of three-dimensional (3D) short-ranged wetting transitions have missed
an entropic or low-temperature Casimir contribution to the binding potential describing the …

The contribution to the free energy for a film of liquid of thickness h on a solid surface due to
the interactions between the solid-liquid and liquid-gas interfaces is given by the binding …

For a film of liquid on a solid surface, the binding potential g (h) gives the free energy as a
function of the film thickness h and also the closely related (structural) disjoining pressure …

We investigate the local structure factor S (z; q) at a free liquid–gas interface in systems with
short-ranged intermolecular forces and determine the corrections to the leading-order …

We examine the nanoscale behavior of an equilibrium three-phase contact line in the
presence of long-ranged intermolecular forces by employing a statistical mechanics of fluids …

The wetting transition of the Blume-Capel model is studied by a finite-size scaling analysis of
L× M lattices where competing boundary fields±H 1 act on the first or last row of the L rows in …

Our understanding of both structure and dynamics of adsorbed liquids heavily relies on the
capillary wave Hamiltonian, but a thorough test of this model is still lacking. Here we study …

We show that to account for the full spectrum of surface fluctuations from low scattering
vector qd⪡ 1 (classical capillary wave theory) to high qd≳ 1 (bulklike fluctuations), one must …