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Studies Of Organic Compounds Spreading Over High Energy Surfaces, Lingbo Lu
Studies Of Organic Compounds Spreading Over High Energy Surfaces, Lingbo Lu
Theses and Dissertations--Chemistry
Spreading plays an important role in coating, lubrication, printing and etc. During the spreading process, a liquid thin film forms prior to the expansion of a liquid drop. This thin film is called a precursor film. It not only changes the spreading mechanism, but impacts the wettability of a liquid. Early studies on the precursor films showed the films were stacked in a terraced structure, and the radius of each layer of the films was proportional to the square root of time. Optical techniques such as ellipsometry, X-ray diffraction and X-ray reflectivity solved the conformations of liquid molecules at the …