Metastable wetting on superhydrophobic surfaces: Continuum and atomistic views of the cassie-baxter-wenzel transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Giacomello, Alberto ^a   Chinappi, Mauro ^b   Meloni, Simone ^c,d   Casciola, Carlo Massimo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d CASPUR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; CONTINUUM THEORY; LIQUID PRESSURE; METASTABILITIES; ROUGH HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; TRANSITION MECHANISM; W STATE;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FREE ENERGY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WETTING;

HYDROPHOBICITY;

EID: 84870409652     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.226102     Document Type: Article

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