title: Symbiosis of different-sized drops.
abstract: We demonstrate that the usual situation of coarsening in crystal growth or Ostwald ripening in evaporating liquid drops is not universal, and when the drops coexist with a microscopically thin continuous surface film, a different behavior is observed. The predicted behavior was investigated experimentally and supported by numerical simulations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Leizerson
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Lipson
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Lyushnin