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Wetting, adsorption and surface critical phenomena

โœ Scribed by Bruce M. Law

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
543 KB
Volume
66
Category
Article
ISSN
0079-6816

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โœฆ Synopsis

Our understanding of interfacial phenomena at the surfaces of critical systems, and in particular at the surfaces of critical binary liquid mixtures, has improved signiยฎcantly in the past decade. There is now substantial agreement between theory and experiment. In this paper we review recent experimental progress, provide a conceptual framework within which the majority of these experiments can now be understood, and discuss critically any remaining unresolved discrepancies between experiments or with theory.

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