Authors
Uwe Thiele
Published in
The European physical journal. E, Soft matter. Volume 49. Issue 7. Jul 02, 2026. Epub Jul 02, 2026.
Abstract
In recent years, the term active wetting has gained some traction in works describing, analyzing, and modeling a wide variety of wetting phenomena, for instance, in the contexts of biomolecular condensates, of cell layers or cell aggregates, and of active Brownian particles. The present perspective discusses a coarse classification of wetting phenomena that accounts for this. First, different categories of static and dynamic wetting of passive liquids are briefly introduced, in particular, distinguishing equilibrium wetting, relaxational wetting, driven wetting, and reactive wetting. Second, an overview is given of the various phenomena recently described as active wetting. We conclude by discussing a possible definition of active wetting together with a number of caveats that one might want to keep in mind when using such classifications.
PMID:
42393398
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