This volume chronicles the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Contact
Angle, Wettability and Adhesion held in Providence, Rhode Island, May 20a 23, 2002. This …

The excess energy of the three-phase system per unit length of the three-phase contact line
is attributed to the line tension, a one-dimensional analog of the surface tension. The …

The morphology of wetting layers on structured or imprinted surfaces is determined by the
geometry of the underlying surface domains. Droplets which cover a single domain exhibit …

Using atomic force microscopy with nonconventional carbon tips, the pinning of a liquid
contact line on individual nanometric defects was studied. This mechanism is responsible for …

We report direct atomic force microscopy measurements of pinning-depinning dynamics of a
circular moving contact line (CL) over the rough surface of a micron-sized vertical hanging …

Electrowetting has recently been explored as a mechanism for moving small amounts of
fluids in confined spaces. We propose a diffuse-interface model for drop motion, due to …

We have studied the capillary spreading of a Newtonian liquid along hydrophilic
microstripes that are chemically defined on a hydrophobic substrate. The front of the …

We investigate the wetting properties of random nanostructured surfaces, with particular
attention devoted to the phenomenon of contact angle hysteresis. For this purpose, solid …

We present results from an experimental study on the phenomenon of contact angle
hysteresis on solid surfaces decorated by a random array of nanometric hollows. For weak …

In this work, we investigate the configuration of the contact line of a water drop lying on an
ultrahydrophobic post surface using the numerical algorithm Surface Evolver. For the special …