Wetting: statics and dynamics

P. G. de Gennes · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1985

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1985

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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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Gennes, P. G. D. (1985). Wetting: statics and dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.57.827

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Gennes, P. G. de. "Wetting: statics and dynamics." 1985. https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.57.827.

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Gennes, P. G. D. 1985, Wetting: statics and dynamics, Reviews of Modern Physics, available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.57.827 [Accessed 7 Aug. 2026].

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Title: Wetting: statics and dynamics

Author / contributors: P. G. de Gennes

Publisher: Reviews of Modern Physics

Publication year: 1985

Language: English

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