Direct thermodynamic measures for forming the metalwater interface from a metal and a water surface or from a metal surface and bulk water are given by the work of adhesion (W ad ) or the free energy of surface solvation (F solv ), respectively. These measures show that Pd is the most strongly solvated surface, followed by Pt and Rh, and then by Pd-Au, Ag, and Au. Note that the ordering between γ sl and W ad or F solv depends on the used reference system. Most of the metal surfaces are also hydrophilic and completely wetting as the contact angles are 0 • . Ag and Au are the only exceptions with contact angles 52 • and 95 • , respectively. The predicted works of adhesion are in a decently satisfactory agreement with those measured using the meniscus technique: the calculated (measured) W ad in meV/Å 2 are 4.06 (15.92) for Au, 7.23 (15.56) for Ag, and 20.49 (15.9) for Pt. This comparison shows that the calculated and experimental values are of similar magnitude but the experimental data indicates that all surfaces are completely wetting while the simulations predict that water would not completely wet the Ag and Au surfaces. The qualitative disagreement between the computational and experimental results for Ag and Au is attributed to the different surface structures and morphologies in the simulations and experiments; we used ideal FCC(111) surfaces while the meniscus experiments used macroscopic samples without controlling the surface orientations or presence of defects. It is wellknown that more open surfaces exhibit stronger metal-water interactions and are thereby more wettable.