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Line tension and its influence on droplets and particles at surfaces
In this review we examine the influence of the line tension Ď on droplets and particles at surfaces. The line tension influences the nucleation behavior and contact angle of liquid droplets at both liquid and solid surfaces and alters the attachment energetics of solid particles to liquid surfaces. Many factors, occurring over a wide range of length scales, contribute to the line tension. On atomic scales, atomic rearrangements and reorientations of submolecular components give rise to an atomic line tension contribution Ďatom (âź1 nN), which depends on the similarity/dissimilarity of the droplet/particle surface composition compared with the surface upon which it resides. At nanometer length scales, an integration over the van der Waals interfacial potential gives rise to a mesoscale contribution |ĎvdW| âź 1â100 pN while, at millimeter length scales, the gravitational potential provides a gravitational contribution Ďgrav âź +1â10 ÎźN. Ďgrav is always positive, whereas, ĎvdW can have either sign. Near wetting, for very small contact angle droplets, a negative line tension may give rise to a contact line instability. We examine these and other issues in this review
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