Wetting transitions

Daniel Bonn, David Ross, Emanuel Bertrand, Karine Ragil, Noushine Shahidzadeh, Daniel Broseta and Jacques Meunier

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 306, issue C, 279-286

Abstract: When a liquid droplet is put onto a surface, two situations distinguishable by the contact angle may result. If the contact angle is zero, the droplet spreads across the surface, a situation referred to as complete wetting. Second, if the contact angle is between 0° and 180°, the droplet does not spread; a situation called partial wetting. A wetting transition is a surface phase transition from partial to complete wetting. We present experiments that show three different ways in which the wetting transition can come about.

Keywords: Wetting; Surface Phase Transitions; Critical Phenomena (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437102005058
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:306:y:2002:i:c:p:279-286

DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)00505-8

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().