Determine the contact angle between liquid polyethylene (PE) and a solid slab of polystyrene (PS) at 200°C. Assume that the surface tension of the PE is 0.036 N/m, and for the PS it is 0.035 N/m. The interfacial tension between PE and PS is presented in Table 3.3.

What will be an ideal response?


From Table 3.3 the interfacial tension between PE and PS is 0.0044 N/m. Inserting known values into Young’s equation



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