Ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface
"Wetness" redirects here. For the biological secretion, see subpreputial wetness.
For other uses, see Wetting (disambiguation).
For other uses of "Wet", see Wet (disambiguation).
Water bead on a fabric that has been made non-wetting by chemical treatment.
Wetting is the ability of a liquid to displace gas to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together.[1] This happens in presence of a gaseous phase or another liquid phase not miscible with the first one. The degree of wetting (wettability) is determined by a force balance between adhesive and cohesive forces. There are two types of wetting: non-reactive wetting and reactive wetting.[2][3]
Wetting is important in the bonding or adherence of two materials.[4] Wetting and the surface forces that control wetting are also responsible for other related effects, including capillary effects. Surfactants can be used to increase the wetting power of a liquid like water.
Wetting is a focus of research attention in nanotechnology and nanoscience studies due to the advent of many nanomaterials in the past two decades (e.g. graphene,[5] carbon nanotube, boron nitride nanomesh[6]).
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