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cond-mat.soft1998
Contact angles on heterogeneous surfaces; a new look at Cassie's and Wenzel's laws
P. S. Swain, Reinhard Lipowsky
We consider a three dimensional liquid drop sitting on a rough and chemically heterogeneous substrate. Using a novel minimization technique on the free energy of this system, a gen…
cond-mat.stat-mech1998★ 9 cited
Critical behavior of interacting surfaces with tension
A. Volmer, U. Seifert, R. Lipowsky
Wetting phenomena, molecular protrusions of lipid bilayers and membrane stacks under lateral tension provide physical examples for interacting surfaces with tension. Such surfaces…