TY - JOUR
T1 - Diffusion-limited growth of wetting layers
AU - Lipowsky, Reinhard
AU - Huse, David A.
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PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - In binary liquid mixtures, the growth of wetting layers can be limited by diffusion. At complete wetting, the distance l between the interfaces bounding the layer is shown to grow as l(t)A*t for large times t where A* increases near the consolute point. In three dimensions where this growth behavior should be accessible to experiments, =18 and 110 for nonretarded and retarded van der Waals forces, respectively. The interfacial motion resulting from diffusion-limited growth is studied for general interactions, and a planar interface is found to be stable for <12.
AB - In binary liquid mixtures, the growth of wetting layers can be limited by diffusion. At complete wetting, the distance l between the interfaces bounding the layer is shown to grow as l(t)A*t for large times t where A* increases near the consolute point. In three dimensions where this growth behavior should be accessible to experiments, =18 and 110 for nonretarded and retarded van der Waals forces, respectively. The interfacial motion resulting from diffusion-limited growth is studied for general interactions, and a planar interface is found to be stable for <12.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.353
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.353
M3 - Article
C2 - 10034038
AN - SCOPUS:35949015317
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 57
SP - 353
EP - 356
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 3
ER -