Apparent contact angles on rough surfaces: the Wenzel equation revisited

RESISTANCE OF SOLID SURFACES TO WETTING BY WATER

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

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III. An essay on the cohesion of fluids

Thomas Young · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 1805 · 6.4K citations

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Thermodynamic aspects of contact angle hysteresis

Abraham Marmur · Advances in Colloid and Interface Science · 1994 · 166 citations

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Equilibrium contact angles: theory and measurement

Abraham Marmur · Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects · 1996 · 155 citations

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The Actual Contact Angle on a Heterogeneous Rough Surface in Three Dimensions

Gershon Wolansky, Abraham Marmur · Langmuir · 1998 · 146 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics +16