Young’s equation revisited
Lasse Makkonen · 2016 · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
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Abstract
Young's construction for a contact angle at a three-phase intersection forms the basis of all fields of science that involve wetting and capillary action. We find compelling evidence from recent experimental results on the deformation of a soft solid at the contact line, and displacement of an elastic wire immersed in a liquid, that Young's equation can only be interpreted by surface energies, and not as a balance of surface tensions. It follows that the a priori variable in finding equilibrium is not the position of the contact line, but the contact angle. This finding provides the explanatio
Abstract by Lasse Makkonen, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (2016) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1088/0953-8984/28/13/135001