Chasing the Critical Wetting Transition. An Effective Interface Potential Method

Paweł Bryk; Artur P Terzyk

doi:10.3390/ma14237138

Chasing the Critical Wetting Transition. An Effective Interface Potential Method

Materials (Basel). 2021 Nov 24;14(23):7138. doi: 10.3390/ma14237138.

Authors

Paweł Bryk¹, Artur P Terzyk²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie Skłodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland.
² Physicochemistry of Carbon Materials Research Group, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.

Abstract

Wettablity is one of the important characteristics defining a given surface. Here we show that the effective interface potential method of determining the wetting temperature, originally proposed by MacDowell and Müller for the surfaces exhibiting the first order wetting transition, can also be used to estimate the wetting temperature of the second order (continuous) wetting transition. Some selected other methods of determination of the wetting temperature are also discussed.

Keywords: Ising model; computer simulation; wetting.

Grants and funding

OPUS 13UMO-2017/25/B/ST5/00975/National Science Center