Wetting: statics and dynamics
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Reviews of Modern Physics
- Vol. 57 (3) , 827-863
- https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.57.827
Abstract
The wetting of solids by liquids is connected to physical chemistry (wettability), to statistical physics (pinning of the contact line, wetting transitions, etc.), to long-range forces (van der Waals, double layers), and to fluid dynamics. The present review represents an attempt towards a unified picture with special emphasis on certain features of "dry spreading": (a) the final state of a spreading droplet need not be a monomolecular film; (b) the spreading drop is surrounded by a precursor film, where most of the available free energy is spent; and (c) polymer melts may slip on the solid and belong to a separate dynamical class, conceptually related to the spreading of superfluids.Keywords
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