Research Article

Experimental Study of the Influence of the Adsorbate Layer Composition on the Wetting of Different Substrates with Water

Table 1

Water contact angle , adsorbate layer thickness , and atom number fractions of oxygen , polar carbon , and nonpolar carbon in the adsorbate layer measured for the differently prepared gold samples. The number in parentheses indicates the statistical uncertainty in the last decimal digit.

Oil exposureCleaning agent (°) (nm)

No-oilAAA84.6(18)1.445(17)0.779(10)0.156(18)0.065(12)
81.1(17)1.65(5)0.6992(37)0.196(5)0.105(7)
CCC89.7(7)1.70(6)0.854(13)0.0989(36)0.046(8)
89.8(13)1.59(7)0.783(13)0.135(10)0.0821(46)
NC86.8(13)1.54(7)0.8142(41)0.132(10)0.053(5)
91.3(6)1.64(6)0.849(15)0.106(12)0.046(9)

OilAAA92.9(12)2.046(43)0.747(17)0.122(8)0.130(14)
CCC89.4(12)1.57(8)0.631(6)0.148(12)0.221(7)