Research Article

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

Figure 6

Cosine of the water contact angle as function of the adsorbate layer composition represented as . 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 measured in the present work; the other results are taken from Becker et al. [20]. The empirical correlation for the water contact angle (Equation (9)) is shown as black line.