Say, someone brought a rough surface to you, and started asking for predicting its wettability without even using the liquid! The classical theories fail to meet this issue. In this project, I presented a set of theories that I obtained by merging statistical metrology to wettability, to develop a method, which we call the SHWARTS (Statistical Heuristic Wettability Analysis Method of Randomly Textured Surfaces). For certain surfaces it works quite well for predicting wettability, while the existing methods and theories fail to do so! Read here...

This work was published in Langmuir in 2020.