Therefore, we revert to the standard method of determining contact angles wherein a liquid droplet is placed on a solid substrate. Simulation setup and details are presented in Section II C. Figure shows the contact angle variation of a liquid droplet with ε * . The most wetting scenario yields a non-zero contact angle of about 30 o while the least wetting case is mildly hydrophobic with θ ∼ 110 o . Furthermore, consistent with prior studies , we observe an increase in contact angle with decreasing droplet sizes. Our choices of ε * thus enable us to monitor both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regimes. point between heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation which is evidenced by the fact that, out of all the independent simulations considered for this specific ε * , the ratio of nucleation events occurring in the bulk to interface is ∼ 0.5. For higher (lower) wetting situations, the bubble forms solely inside the liquid (at interface). The ratio of nucleation pressure for different interfacial interactions, σ min , to σ min,bulk represents a non-dimensional factor which partially resembles Γ introduced in Equation . We show the variation of this factor on the left axis of Figure .