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Phys Rev Lett
; 117(16): 167801, 2016 Oct 14.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27792365
RESUMO
We report on the capillary-driven leveling of a topographical perturbation at the surface of a freestanding liquid nanofilm. The width of a stepped surface profile is found to evolve as the square root of time. The hydrodynamic model is in excellent agreement with the experimental data. In addition to exhibiting an analogy with diffusive processes, this novel system serves as a precise nanoprobe for the rheology of liquids at interfaces in a configuration that avoids substrate effects.