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The influence of surface roughness on the equilibrium spreading of liquids on aluminium and stainless steel surfaces with well-characterized rough machine finishes and a well-defined technique of attaining liquid drop equilibrium has been experimentally studied. The surfaces were prepared under practical conditions, i.e. without rigorous purification or attempting to eliminate anisotropy or microheterogeneities in surface-free energy. Depending on the type of roughness, i.e. spiral-grooved, radial-grooved and porous, the advancing contact angle was in approximate agreement with one of the classical contact angle/surface roughness equations. Capillary channelling along machine grooves profoundly affected the spreading and wetting behaviour and was highly dependent on the orientation and texture of roughness. Although the observed spreading was generally smooth on all surfaces it was probable that microscopic surface asperities produce small-scale non-equilibrium contact line movements and are responsible for the extensive wetting hysteresis during drop retraction.
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Oliver, J.F., Mason, S.G. Liquid spreading on rough metal surfaces. J Mater Sci 15, 431–437 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02396792
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