Research Article

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

Figure 4

Cosine of the water contact angle as function of the adsorbate layer thickness . Results for different substrates: gold (circles), steel (triangles), and titanium (squares). Pretreatment: no-oil (open symbols) and with oil (filled symbols). Cleaning: CCC (blue), AAA (red), III (green), and NC (black). The results for gold were obtained in the present work; the other results are taken from Becker et al. [20]. The error bars of the adsorbate layer thickness are within the symbol size.