Difference between revisions of "Wetting of hydrocarbon liquid surfaces by fluorocarbon vapor: A microscopic study"

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Original entry: William Bonificio, AP 225, Fall 2009

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O. Gang, M. Fukuto, P. Huber and P. Pershan, Wetting of hydrocarbon liquid surfaces by fluorocarbon vapor: A microscopic study, Colloids & Surfaces A 206, 293-297 (2002)

Soft matter keywords

Wetting; Surface; Fluorocarbon; Hydrocarbon; Alkane; X-ray reflectivity; Surface freezing; thin film;

Summary

The wetting behavior of a liquid fluorocarbon on a liquid hydrocarbon was examined. At temperatures just above the freezing point of a liquid hydrocarbon there is an effect that occurs called surface freezing, where the surface of the hydrocarbon forms a periodic structure. The researchers discovered that when the hydrocarbon is coated even by the thinnest of fluorocarbon films, this surface freezing effect dissappears. Furthermore, the team researched the wetting effect of this system and discovered that, as expected, complete wetting occurred according to the $d ~ \delta T^{1/3}$ law.

Soft matter discussion

[[Image:Neurofilament2.png|frame|left|Figure 2: At the micron and mesoscopic length scales, the NFs begin to exhibit interesting bending