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Surface Tension

Surface Tension is a physicochemical property defined as the energy per unit area at the interface between two immiscible phases, arising from the imbalance of intermolecular forces at the surface, which causes the surface to contract and resist external forces.

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Universal Solvation Model Based on Solute Electron Density and on a Continuum Model of the Solvent Defined by the Bulk Dielectric Constant and Atomic Surface Tensions

Aleksandr V. Marenich, Christopher J. Cramer, Donald G. Truhlar · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 2009 · 17.4K citations · Full text

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RESISTANCE OF SOLID SURFACES TO WETTING BY WATER

Robert N. Wenzel · Industrial & Engineering Chemistry · 1936 · 13K citations

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A continuum method for modeling surface tension

J. U. Brackbill, D.B. Kothe, C. Zemach · Journal of Computational Physics · 1992 · 10.1K citations

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Estimation of the surface free energy of polymers

D.K. Owens, R. C. Wendt · Journal of Applied Polymer Science · 1969 · 9.2K citations

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Surface energy and the contact of elastic solids

Kenneth L. Johnson, Kevin Kendall, A. D. Roberts · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1971 · 7.9K citations

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    A. W. Neumann

    University of Toronto, Canada

    144 publications · 11.7K citations

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    R. Miller

    Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany

    125 publications · 6K citations

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    Jacob N. Israelachvili

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    62 publications · 11.7K citations

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  4. DL
    D. Langévin

    Laboratoire de physique des Solides, France

    55 publications · 4K citations

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    V. B. Fainerman

    Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany

    79 publications · 3.8K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

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    389 publications

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  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

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    965 publications

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    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    66 h-index

    312 publications

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  5. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    63 h-index

    683 publications

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  6. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    62 h-index

    516 publications

    30.1K citations

  7. Harvard University

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    PRL · 455 publications · 43.8K citations

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