SIMULATION OF WETTABILITY OF NANOTEXTURED SURFACES BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

VA Andryushchenko and KV Artishevskii and DV Smovzh, JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS AND TECHNICAL PHYSICS, 64, 814-820 (2023).

DOI: 10.1134/S0021894423050103

Wettability of textured surfaces of copper and carbon substrates is under study. It is revealed that the geometric parameters of the textures being created (e.g., depth and regularity) significantly affect the surface lyophilicity and the manner in which a water droplet spreads and moves. The contact angles obtained experimentally are consistent with the angles obtained via molecular dynamics simulations.

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