Analysis of pseudopartial and partial wetting of various substrates by lead.
Lead drops exhibit partial wetting on some substrates and pseudopartial wetting on others. In pseudopartial wetting, a film is in equilibrium with a capillary body with a nonzero contact angle. Using a free energy formulation appropriate for the experiments, we show the conditions under which minimization of the system energy is accurately achieved by minimizing the energy of the film alone. Using a set of simple surface energy isotherms, we explain the various wetting behaviors of lead. We contrast isotherms for autophobing systems and the metallic systems considered here.
Humfeld
Keith D
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Department of Physics, Center for Complex Fluids Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Garoff
Stephen
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Wynblatt
Paul
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