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The final Chap. 6 sums up the results of the book and presents an Outlook on various new directions for which the concepts developed in the book provide a basis. Examples that are addressed concern the presence of evaporation, films on finite or structured surfaces, metallic films, external fields on the films, but also polar gels which are model systems for the dynamics of cells on surfaces.
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In fact, this is also not entirely correct since in polymer films, at least in their initial stages when volatile solvents are also present. We cautiously avoided to discuss this aspect.
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Blossey, R. (2012). Conclusions and Outlook. In: Thin Liquid Films. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4455-4_6
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