"Wettability" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The quality or state of being wettable or the degree to which something can be wet. This is also the ability of any solid surface to be wetted when in contact with a liquid whose surface tension is reduced so that the liquid spreads over the surface of the solid.
| Descriptor ID |
D017155
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.409.500 G02.860.908
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| Concept/Terms |
Wettability- Wettability
- Wettabilities
- Hygroscopicity
- Hygroscopicities
- Wetability
- Wetabilities
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wettability" by people in Profiles.
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Domain formation in membranes caused by lipid wetting of protein. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008 May; 77(5 Pt 1):051901.