text: and may explain why one has such good agreement between the experimentally observed patterns 
  
  and the patterns obtained from a purely two-dimensional (single layer) kinetic Monte Carlo model 
  
  [35]. We introduce the KMC model below in Section III A. 
  
  In several respects, however, the kinetic Monte Carlo model is rather simplistic, limiting its po- 
  
  tential applications. For instance, the thermodynamic chemical potential as well as any wetting 
  
  interaction of the solvent with the substrate are collected in a single parameter – an effective chem- 
  
  ical potential. This implies that any inﬂuence of a disjoining pressure is ‘smeared out’ over the 
  
  whole system and that no distinction between the short- and the long-range parts of the disjoining 
  
  pressure is possible. It is furthermore based on the assumption that evaporation/condensation is 