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Stability and dewetting of thin liquid films
Karin Jacobs, Ralf Seemann, Stephan Herminghaus
The stability of thin liquid coatings is of fundamental interest in every- day life. Homogeneous and non-volatile liquid coatings may dewet either by heterogeneous nucleation, ther…
Mechanisms of dissipation in wet granular matter
A. Fingerle, S. Herminghaus
The impact dynamics between wet surfaces, which dominates the mechanical properties of wet granular matter, is studied both experimentally and theoretically. It is shown that the h…
Chaoticity of the Wet Granular Gas
A. Fingerle, S. Herminghaus, V. Yu. Zaburdaev
In this work we derive an analytic expression for the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of dilute wet granular matter, valid for any spatial dimension. The grains are modelled as hard spher…
A Universal Nucleation Mechanism for Solvent Cast Polymer Film Rupture
Daniel Podzimek, Annemarie Saier, Ralf Seemann +2
It is shown that the intrinsic stress in solvent cast polymer coatings plays a key role in the nucleation of holes in the film. Nucleation is important because it is meanwhile clea…
A Transient Instability in Thin Films of nCB Liquid Crystals
Stefan Schlagowski, Karin Jacobs, Stephan Herminghaus
A transient surface instability is reported in thin nematic films of 5CB and 8CB, occurring near the nematic-isotropic phase transition. Although this instability leads to patterns…