“…Wetting of solid surfaces with liquids has wide applications in printing, painting, adhesion, lubrication, and spraying, and has attracted considerable research interest. − The time course of a drop radius ( R ) of a completely wetting fluid on a solid substrate is correlated using a simple power law, R ( t ) = at m , with m = 1/10 or m = 1/8 in the capillary spreading or in the gravitational spreading regime, respectively . Many studies of completely wetting Newtonian fluids agree with the above-mentioned theoretical prediction. − ,,,− ,,,− Blake, conversely, determined that m = 1/7 in the capillary regime based on a molecular kinetics approach.…”