Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion, Volume 4

Mittal, Kash L.

• Part 1: General Papers 1. Study of contact angles, contact line dynamics and interfacial liquid slip by a mean-field free-energy lattice Boltzmann model 2. Contact line motion: Hydrodynamical or molecular process? 3. The detailed structure of a perturbed wetting triple line on modified PTFE 4. A simple geometrical model to predict evaporative behavior of spherical sessile droplets on impermeable surfaces Part 2: Contact Angle Measurements/Determination and Solid Surface Free Energy 5. About the possibility of experimentally measuring an equilibrium contact angle and its theoretical and practical consequences 6. The static contact angle hysteresis and Young's equilibrium contact angle 7. Wettability of porous materials, I: The use of Wilhelmy experiment: The cases of stone, wood and non-woven fabric 8. Wettability of porous materials, II: Can we obtain the contact angle from the Washburn equation? 9. Contact-angle measurements of sessile drops deformed by a DC electric field 10. Dynamic contact angle of a droplet spreading on heterogeneous surfaces 11. Wetting on chemically heterogeneous surfaces: Pseudo-spherical approximation for sessile drops 12. Can contact angle measurements be used to predict soiling and cleaning of plastic flooring materials? 13. Surface free energy of solids: A comparison of models 14. Determination of solid surface tension at the nano-scale using atomic force microscopy Part 3: Wettability and Its Modification 15. Study of surface charge properties of minerals and surface-modified substrates by wettability measurements 16. Study of electrically-induced wetting on silicon single-crystal substrates 17. Criteria for ultralyophobic surfaces 18. Highly hydrophobic textile surfaces obtained by thin-layer deposition 19. Wettability of surface-modified keratin fibers 20. Ammonia plasma-simulating treatments and their impact on wettability of PET fabrics 21. Study of the effect of acidic species on wettability alteration of calcite surfaces by measur