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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/srep30764
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51406205]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [3142021]
- China Scholarship Council
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK [EP/L001233/1]
- EPSRC [EP/L001233/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/L001233/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Molecular dynamics simulations have been carried out to investigate the onset of surface condensation. On surfaces with different wettability, we snapshot different condensation modes (no-condensation, dropwise condensation and filmwise condensation) and quantitatively analyze their characteristics by temporal profiles of surface clusters. Two different types of formation of nanoscale droplets are identified, i.e. the formations with and without film-like condensate. We exhibit the effect of surface tensions on the formations of nanoscale droplets and film. We reveal the formation mechanisms of different condensation modes at nanoscale based on our simulation results and classical nucleation theory, which supplements the 'classical hypotheses' of the onset of dropwise condensation. We also reveal the transition mechanism between different condensation modes based on the competition between surface tensions and reveal that dropwise condensation represents the transition states from no-condensation to filmwise condensation.
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