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Why does high surface energy of the solid have more wetting?
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[QUOTE="Simon Bridge, post: 5466547, member: 367532"] There are a lot of different kinds of surfaces that may be characterized as "high energy" so it is difficult to be precise or details - the best I can do is point you in the kind of direction likely to be helpful. Then you can learn enough to narrow down your inquirey. The "surface energy" is a measure of how hard it is to break up the surface. Covalent crystals like metals tend to have high surface energies. Materals in real life are not usually perfect - the surfaces have cracks, impurities, and lumps. A Plasma washing over a surface can, for instance, carry off surface deformaties and add other atoms and/or coating the material with something stronger. The exact mechanism depends on the exact treatment used. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1438429&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D1438429 [URL]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167572996800033[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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