“…However, in the case of fillers in form of powders or porous media such as lignin, some issues arise with this technique for measuring equilibrium contact angles, particularly due to the imbibition of liquids into the media [39][40][41]. Wicking tests are then performed as an alternative method, and they are described using the well-known modified Washburn equation for porous materials [39,[42][43][44][45]. However this method, that theoretically allows the determination of apparent advancing contact angles [46,47], does not always give reliable results due to the Washburn hypotheses that are not respected or no longer valid [40,43,48].…”