Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2011-11-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
23 pages, 27 figures
Scientific paper
By taking into account precursor films accompanying nanodroplets on trapezoidal substrates we show that on a mesoscopic level of description one does not observe the phenomenon of liquid-gas-substrate contact line pinning at substrate edges. This phenomenon is present in a macroscopic description and leads to non-unique contact angles which can take values within a range determined by the so-called Gibbs' criterion. Upon increasing the volume of the nanodroplet the apparent contact angle evaluated within the mesoscopic approach changes continuously between two limiting values fulfilling Gibbs' criterion while the contact line moves smoothly across the edge of the trapezoidal substrate. The spatial extent of the range of positions of the contact line, corresponding to the variations of the contact angle between the values given by Gibbs' criterion, is of the order of ten fluid particle diameters.
Dietrich Siegfried
Dutka Filip
Napiorkowski Marek
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