@article{5264de34a58742afa501112af9e77417,
title = "Capillary leveling of freestanding liquid nanofilms",
abstract = "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.",
author = "Mark Ilton and Couchman, {Miles M.P.} and Cedric Gerbelot and Michael Benzaquen and Fowler, {Paul D.} and Stone, {Howard A.} and Elie Rapha{\"e}l and Kari Dalnoki-Veress and Thomas Salez",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank Martin Brinkmann and Ren{\'e} Ledesma-Alonso for interesting discussions, and gratefully acknowledge financial support from NSERC of Canada and the Global Station for Soft Matter, a project of the Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education at Hokkaido University. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 American Physical Society.",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.167801",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "117",
journal = "Physical review letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "16",
}