{
  "id": "cond-mat/9906158",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1999-06-11T16:12:12.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-06-11T16:12:12.000Z",
  "title": "Threshold criterion for wetting at the triple point",
  "authors": [
    "S. Curtarolo",
    "G. Stan",
    "M. J. Bojan",
    "M. W. Cole",
    "W. A. Steele"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 8 figures",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.61.1670",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
  ],
  "abstract": "Grand canonical simulations are used to calculate adsorption isotherms of various classical gases on alkali metal and Mg surfaces. Ab initio adsorption potentials and Lennard-Jones gas-gas interactions are used. Depending on the system, the resulting behavior can be nonwetting for all temperatures studied, complete wetting, or (in the intermediate case) exhibit a wetting transition. An unusual variety of wetting transitions at the triple point is found in the case of a specific adsorption potential of intermediate strength. The general threshold for wetting near the triple point is found to be close to that predicted with a heuristic model of Cheng et al. This same conclusion was drawn in a recent experimental and simulation study of Ar on CO_2 by Mistura et al. These results imply that a dimensionless wetting parameter w is useful for predicting whether wetting behavior is present at and above the triple temperature. The nonwetting/wetting crossover value found here is w circa 3.3.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1999-06-11T16:12:12.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "triple point",
      "threshold criterion",
      "ab initio adsorption potentials",
      "specific adsorption potential",
      "lennard-jones gas-gas interactions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. E"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}