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Effects of capillary and van der Waals dispersion forces on the equilibrium profile of a wetting liquid: Theory and experiment Jack G. Truong and Peter C. Wayner Citation: J. Chem. Phys. 87, 4180 (1987); doi: 10.1063/1.452922 View online: /10.1063/1.452922 View Table of Contents: /resource/1/JCPSA6/v87/i7 Published by the American Institute of Physics. Additional information on J. Chem. Phys. Journal Homepage: / Journal Information: /about/about_the_journal Top downloads: /features/most_downloaded Information for Authors: /authors Downloaded 28 Oct 2012 to 8. Redistribution subject to AIP license or copyright; see /about/rights_and_permissions Effects of capillary and van der Waals dispersion forces on the equilibrium profile of a wetting liquid: Theory and experiment Jack G. Truong and Peter C. Wayner, Jr. Department a/Chemical Engineering. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590 (Received 30 October 1986; accepted 19 June 1987) The equilibrium profile of a wetting liquid near the transition region, where both capillary and van der Waals dispersion forces are equally important, was determined using interferometry and ellipsometry. Measurements were made in the thickness range 0.02;;;;0;;;; 1f.1m for both hexane and octane wetting a single crystal silicon surface. Theoretical profiles were also obtained numerically from a model based on the balance of hydrostatic force, capillarity, and the retarded van der Waals dispersion force. We used the Dzyaloshinskii-Lifshitz-Pitaevskii theory to calculate the van der Waals interactions between the alkanes and silicon. Fairly good agreements between the theoretical and experimental film profiles were obtained. The measured equilibrium film thicknesses for hexane and for octane on silicon were -