Does the Roughness of the Substrate Enhance Wetting?

Abstract
We consider a semi-infinite three-dimensional Ising system with a rough wall to describe the effect of the roughness r of the substrate on wetting. For sufficiently low temperature, we show that the difference of wall free energies Δτr of the two phases behaves like ΔτrrΔτ1, implying that roughness enhances wetting for Δτ1>0 and drying for Δτ1<0.

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