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Critical Behavior of Interfaces: Roughening and Wetting Phenomena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Reinhard Lipowsky ,
Stefan Grotehans  and
Götz J.O. Schmidt
Reinhard Lipowsky
Affiliation:
Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich Postfach 1913, D-5170 Jülich, Germany
Stefan Grotehans
Affiliation:
Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich Postfach 1913, D-5170 Jülich, Germany
Götz J.O. Schmidt
Affiliation:
Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich Postfach 1913, D-5170 Jülich, Germany
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Abstract

The critical behavior of interfaces is discussed from a theoretical point of view. Two classes of critical phenomena will be considered: (i) Roughening phenomena related to changes in the interfacial morphology; and (ii) Wetting phenomena related to changes in the interfacial structure. In two dimensions, the critical behavior can be determined exactly for a variety of models. As a result, one obtains different universality classes depending on the nature of the inter molecular forces.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 237: Symposium Ca – Interface Dynamics and Growth , 1991 , 11
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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