Prewetting Transitions

Prewetting Transition is a first-order phase transition in which a thin adsorbed liquid film on a solid surface undergoes a discontinuous increase in thickness upon approaching the bulk liquid–vapor coexistence curve, occurring below the critical temperature and distinguishing itself from continuous wetting by the presence of a metastable thin-to-thick film transition.

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Variants

Prewetting Transition

Parents

Interface ThermodynamicsInterfacial Thermodynamics

Publications

106

Multicriticality of Wetting, Prewetting, and Surface Transitions

Hisao Nakanishi, Michael E. Fisher · Physical Review Letters · 1982 · 525 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Science, Condensed Matter Physics +16

Helium prewetting and nonwetting on weak-binding substrates

E. Cheng, Milton W. Cole, W. F. Saam et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1991 · 279 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Science, Physics +14

Liquids at interfaces: what can a theorist contribute?

Robert Evans, A. O. Parry · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter · 1990 · 276 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Physics +17

Sequence-dependent surface condensation of a pioneer transcription factor on DNA

José A. Morín, Sina Wittmann, Sandeep Choubey et al. · Nature Physics · 2022 · 180 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +13

Prewetting at a fluid-solid interface via Monte Carlo simulation

John E. Finn, P. A. Monson · Physical review. A, General physics · 1989 · 175 citations

Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science +17

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Milton W. Cole
Pennsylvania State University, United States
6 publications · 521 citations
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Jayant K. Singh
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
4 publications · 50 citations
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E. Cheng
Pennsylvania State University, United States
4 publications · 470 citations
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J. Treiner
Institut de Physique, France
4 publications · 470 citations
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Robert Evans
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
4 publications · 453 citations
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Physical Review Letters
PRL · 17 publications · 1.5K citations
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The Journal of Chemical Physics
18 publications · 437 citations
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Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics
PRE · 9 publications · 240 citations
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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
7 publications · 407 citations
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Physical review. B, Condensed matter
PRB · 7 publications · 431 citations
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