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Wetting: statics and dynamics
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.
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- Authors
- de Gennes, P. G.
- Venue
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1985-07-01
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 827-863
- ISSN
- 0034-6861 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2155788949
- Cited by
- 7,207
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 68.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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