Water does not wet on the graphite surface at room temperature, but a prediction states that there should be a transition to complete wetting at an elevated temperature. Our goal is to experimentally observe a wetting transition of water on graphite and determine the wetting temperature. The result is that we observed a partial wetting transition near 325K, but we did not observe a transition to complete wetting up to 500K. Further future work is still necessary.

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Creator

• Segawa, Shinya

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 05D356M

Advisor

• Garcia, Rafael

Year

• 2005

Date created

• 2005-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Physics

Rights statement

• In Copyright