Josell, D.
and Spaepen, F.
(2008),
Surfaces, Interfaces, and Changing Shapes, Mrs Bulletin
(Accessed October 22, 2025)
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Surfaces, Interfaces, and Changing Shapes
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, F Spaepen
Abstract
It is generally recognized that the capillary forces associated with internal and external interfaces affect both the shapes of liquid-vapor surfaces and wetting of a solid by a liquid. It is less commonly understood that the same phenomenology often applies equally well to solid-solid or solid-vapor interfaces.The fundamental quantity governing capillary phenomena is the excess free energy associated with a unit area of interface. In what follows we shall show how this fundamental quantity determines the shape of increasingly complex bodies: spheres, wires, thin films and multilayers composed of liquids or solids. Crystal anisotropy is not considered here; all interfaces and surfaces are assumed isotropic.Citation
Mrs Bulletin
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Journals
Keywords
capillary, interfaces, multilayers, thin films
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Created October 16, 2008