F Brochard-Wyart and P G de Gennes 1994 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 6 A9 doi:10.1088/0953-8984/6/23A/002
F Brochard-Wyart and P G de Gennes
Show affiliationsA water film (thickness e) between two hydrophobic solids is metastable. If contact is established (over an initial disc of radius R(0)>R*, where R* is a certain nucleation size), the dry path expands (up to a size R(t) at time t), and the rejected water forms a rim (of width l(t)) around the patch. We predict R(t) approximately t34 / and l(t) approximately t12 /. Typically, over 5*10-3 s we expect R(t) approximately 1.6 mm.
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F Brochard-Wyart and P G de Gennes 1994 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 6 A9
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