How much does the core structure of a three-phase contact line contribute to the line tension near a wetting transition?

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Indekeu, J O ^a   Koga, K ^b   Widom, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT LINES; CORE STRUCTURE; CRITICAL WETTING TRANSITION; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL MODELS; FIRST-ORDER WETTING; FIRST-ORDER WETTING TRANSITIONS; INTERFACE DISPLACEMENT MODEL; LINE TENSION; MEAN-FIELD; PLANAR INTERFACE; STRUCTURE CALCULATION; THREE-PHASE CONTACT LINE; UPPER BOUND; WETTING PHASE; WETTING TRANSITIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MAGNETIC BUBBLES; MEAN FIELD THEORY; PHASE INTERFACES; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WETTING;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

SURFACTANT; WETTING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WETTING AGENTS;

EID: 79955493139     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/19/194101     Document Type: Article

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