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"Young" soap films
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
If we pull out rapidly a metallic frame out of a surfactant solution, we arrive at a "young" soap film with relatively simple features, as noticed first by Lucassen. The weight of…
cond-mat.soft2000
Two remarks on wetting and emulsions
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
This paper is extracted from an opening address given at the workshop "Wetting: from microscopic origins to industrial applications" (Giens, May 6-12, 2000). It discusses two speci…
cond-mat.soft2000
Glass transitions of freely suspended polymer films
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
We present a modified version of our "sliding model", where chain arcs, between two contacts at the surface, may move if all the barriers along the arc are weaker than a certain th…