General stability criterion for wetting

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1 1, 2003, Pages 126011-126014

  Rosso, Riccardo ^a   Virga, Epifanio G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; SURFACE TENSION;

SOLID SUBSTRATES;

WETTING;

EID: 4644288406     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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