Experimental study of hybrid nematic wetting films

► Nematics deposited on substrates with hybrid anchoring may show film coexistence. ► Thicker films may be striped due to the anisotropy of nematic elasticity. ► Available theoretical models account partly on the thicker films properties. ► Coexistence of molecular and mesoscopic thinner films occurs close to NI transition. ► The structure of mesoscopic thinner films is still largely unknown.