TY - JOUR
T1 - Coarse-grained interaction of a fluid with a physically-patterned solid surface
T2 - Application to nanodroplet wetting
AU - Wu, Hongfei
AU - Borhan, Ali
AU - Fichthorn, Kristen A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was sponsored by Grant CBET 0730987 from the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We derive coarse-grained potentials to describe the interaction of a physically adsorbed, fluid-phase atom with a solid surface that is patterned with an array of rectangular or cylindrical pillars. The coarse-grained potentials are used in molecular dynamics simulations to probe the wetting of a Lennard-Jones liquid droplet on various patterned solid surfaces. Our results, which indicate that surface patterning can significantly influence wetting, are in agreement with previous studies.
AB - We derive coarse-grained potentials to describe the interaction of a physically adsorbed, fluid-phase atom with a solid surface that is patterned with an array of rectangular or cylindrical pillars. The coarse-grained potentials are used in molecular dynamics simulations to probe the wetting of a Lennard-Jones liquid droplet on various patterned solid surfaces. Our results, which indicate that surface patterning can significantly influence wetting, are in agreement with previous studies.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10909-009-9907-x
DO - 10.1007/s10909-009-9907-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70349686865
SN - 0022-2291
VL - 157
SP - 277
EP - 295
JO - Journal of Low Temperature Physics
JF - Journal of Low Temperature Physics
IS - 3-4
ER -