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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 86, Issue 23, Pages 5313-5316Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5313
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Small-angle x-ray and neutron scattering are used to characterize the surface roughness and porosity of a natural rock which are described over three decades in length scales and over nine decades in scattered intensities by a surface fractal dimension D = 2.68 +/- 0.03. When this porous medium is exposed to a vapor of a contrast-matched water, neutron scattering reveals that surface roughness disappears at small scales, where a Pored behavior typical of smooth interfaces is observed instead. Water-sorption measurements confirm that such interface smoothing is due predominantly to the water condensing in the most strongly curved asperities rather than covering the surface with a wetting film of uniform thickness.
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