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P. G. de Gennes, Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. 1979. 

The microscopic complexity of the contact angle is illustrated in Fig. X-14, which shows the edge of a solidified drop of glass—note the foot that spreads out from the drop. Ruckenstein [176] discusses some aspects of this, and de Gennes [87] has explained the independence of the spreading rate on the nature of the substrate as due to a precursor film present also surrounding a nonspread-... 

The unstable situation caused when a spread him begins to dewet the surface has been studied [32, 33]. IDewetting generally proceeds from hole formation or retraction of the him edge [32] and hole formation can be a nucleation process or spinodal decomposition [34]. Brochart-Wyart and de Gennes provide a nice... 

Exerowa and co-workers [201] suggest that surfactant association initiates black film formation the growth of a black film is discussed theoretically by de Gennes [202]. A characteristic of thin films important for foam stability, their permeability to gas, has been studied in some depth by Platikanov and co-workers [203, 204]. A review of the stability and permeability of amphiphile films is available [205]. 

De Gennes P G 1979 Scaling Concepts In Polymer Physics (Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press) p 113... 

Undoubtedly the most successful model of the nematic-smectic A phase transition is the Landau-de Gennes model [201. It is applied in the case of a second-order phase transition by combining a Landau expansion for the free energy in tenns of an order parameter for smectic layering with the elastic energy of the nematic phase [20]. It is first convenient to introduce an order parameter for the smectic stmcture, which allows both for the layer periodicity (at the first hannonic level, cf equation (C2.2A)) and the fluctuations of layer position ur [20] ... 

Bouwman W G and de Jeu W H 1992 3D XY behavior of a nematio-smeotio A phase transition oonfirmation of the de Gennes modei Phys.Rev.Lett 6B 800-3... 

Luckliurst G R and Gray G W (eds) 1979 The Molecular Physics of Liquid Crystals (London Academic) de Gennes P G and Prost J 1993 The Physics of Liquid Crystals 2nd edn (Oxford Oxford University Press)... 

De Gennes, P.G. and Prost, J. (1993) The Physics of Liquid Crystals, 2nd edition (Clarendon Press, Oxford). 

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