Contact angle measurement and contact angle interpretation

Wettability of porous surfaces

A. B. D. Cassie, S. Baxter · Transactions of the Faraday Society · 1944 · 13.2K citations

Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, B. D. Cassie +12

RESISTANCE OF SOLID SURFACES TO WETTING BY WATER

Robert N. Wenzel · Industrial & Engineering Chemistry · 1936 · 12.8K citations

Quantitative Methods, Engineering, Wetting +18

Estimation of the surface free energy of polymers

D.K. Owens, R. C. Wendt · Journal of Applied Polymer Science · 1969 · 9K citations

Engineering, Contact Angles, Chemistry +16

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 · 7.8K citations

III. An essay on the cohesion of fluids

Thomas Young · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 1805 · 6.3K citations

Double Curvature, Engineering, Physics +12