“…Indeed, open questions about the relationship between such theories and three-dimensional elasticity have furnished the impetus for ongoing research (see, for example, Pichugin & Rogerson, 2002;Kaplunov et al, 2006;Paroni, 2006;Steigmann, 2007). Efforts to address these issues, or, more accurately, to side-step them, have been based in the present context on models in which the film is regarded as an elastic boundary with essentially zero thickness, as in the classical theory of capillary surfaces.…”