Wetting on a spherical surface
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 36 (10) , 5628-5630
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.36.5628
Abstract
It is shown in the framework of the Cahn model [J. Chem. Phys. 66, 3667 (1977)] that the wetting layer, which forms on a spherical surface, always has a finite thickness where is the radius of a sphere. The temperature of a first-order wetting transition is higher in a spherical geometry than in a flat one. The shift of the transition temperature is proportional to for large .
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