Continued exploration of the wetting phase diagram.

Measurements are presented of the state of wetting of a binary liquid mixture on heavily silylated glass, which are believed to probe a new region of the wetting phase diagram. We find unusual temperature dependence and the first experimental evidence of a possible "partial drying" transition recently predicted by Ebner and Saam for the case of strong short-range substrate-liquid forces opposed by a weak long-range force. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics Comments At the time of publication, author Douglas J. Durian was affiliated with Cornell University. Currently, he is a faculty member at the Physics Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/physics_papers/638 PHYSICAL REVIEW B VOLUME 36, NUMBER 13 Continued exploration of the wetting phase diagram 1 NOVEMBER 1987 Douglas J. Durian and Carl Franck Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Materials Science Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2501 (Received 11 August 1987) Measurements are presented of the state of wetting of a binary liquid mixture on heavily silylated glass, which are believed to probe a new region of the wetting phase diagram. We find unusual temperature dependence and the first experimental evidence of a possible "partial drying" transition recently predicted by Ebner and Saam for the case of strong short-range substrateliquid forces opposed by a weak long-range force.