Relaxation of surface tension in the liquid-solid interfaces of Lennard-Jones liquids.

We have established the surface tension relaxation time in the liquid-solid interfaces of Lennard-Jones (LJ) liquids by means of direct measurements in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The main result is that the relaxation time is found to be almost independent of the molecular structures and viscosity of the liquids (at 70-fold change) used in our study and lies in such a range that in slow hydrodynamic motion the interfaces are expected to be at equilibrium. The implications of our results for the modeling of dynamic wetting processes and interpretation of dynamic contact angle data are discussed.