Dr. Jeremy Sloan, Reader in Electron Microscopy at Warwick and senior author of this paper, said: “This research is unique and important in two different respects. In the first instance, we see how ...

At first sight, the standard Ising model seems rather detached from wetting — the process by which a liquid makes contact with a surface. If, however, you think of the Ising spins on a 2D lattice as ...