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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.236102
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The wetting properties of solid substrates with mesoscale (between van der Waals tails and the capillary length) random roughness are considered as a function of the microscopic contact angle of the wetting liquid and its partial pressure in the surrounding gas phase. It is shown that the well-known transition occurring at Wenzel's angle is accompanied by a transition line at which a jump in the adsorbed liquid volume occurs. This should be present generally on surfaces bearing homogeneous, isotropic random roughness. While a similar abrupt filling transition has been reported before for certain idealized groove or trough geometries, it is identified here as a universal phenomenon. Its location can be analytically calculated under certain mild conditions.
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