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It was demonstrated that wall structure can be used to induce a wetting state of complete wetting by fluid. A new MC technique was developed with which the surface free energy of various interfaces can be calculated. The surface free energies of the interfaces involving the smooth hard wall were in agreement with both the present MD simulations and existing theoretical work for the fluid-wall interface. The surface free energy technique was extended to include interfaces with structured walls, although those results are less conclusive.","abstract_html":"A study of the location of the hard sphere crystal-fluid phase transition and equilibrium wetting states for systems in contact with various hard substrates was undertaken using Monte Carlo (MC) and molecular dynamics (MD) techniques. 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