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›› 2010, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (4): 433-439.DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2010.4.001

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Contact angle of nucleation on the substrate of three mutually perpendicular planes

HAO Xiao-Hui1, GAO Sui-Xiang2   

  1. 1. Mathematics and Information Science Department,Tangshan Teachers College, Tangshan 063000,China;
    2. School of Mathematical Sciences,Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049,China
  • Received:2009-11-30 Revised:2010-01-06 Online:2010-07-15

Abstract:

This paper focuses on the discussion of the heterogeneous nucleation on the substrate of three mutually perpendicular planes. According to the condition of heterogeneous nucleation, we study the critical radius of nucleation and the critical nucleation energy to form a critical nucleus, and obtain a mathematical expression of critical nucleation energy and contact angle. The result shows that the critical nucleation energy is only relevant to the contact angle and that the contact angle plays an important role in heterogeneous nucleation. The discussion on contact angles of nucleation indicates that the critical nucleation energy of heterogeneous nucleation is smaller than that of spontaneous nucleation.

Key words: heterogeneous, contact angle, nucleation radius, nucleation energy

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