Collaboration:

• Professor Douglas Abraham at Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, UK (surface and interfacial phenomena; filling transition of wedges and corners, effective forces induced by fluctuating interface, exact solution for Ising model in confined geometry).
• Professor Robert Evans at Theoretical Physics Group, Bristol University, UK (theory of thermodynamic Casimir forces, criticality in confined fluids).
• Dr Nigel Wilding at the Department of Physics, University of Bath (theory and simulation of confined critical fluids).
• Professor Siegfried Dietrich at the Max-Planck-Institut fr Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany (thermodynamic Casimir forces in correlated fluids).
• Dr Andrzej Drzewinski at Institute of Low Temperatures and Structure Research, PAS, Poland and Dr Pawel Bryk at the UMCS Lublin, Poland (theory of the solvation forces)
• Professor Gleb Oshanin at Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de la Matiere Condensee, Universite Paris 6 (wetting dynamics in confined geometry; early-time dynamics and particles penetration into the nanopore from a bulk fluid phase)