  Wetting behaviour of surfaces is believed to be affected by van der Waals
(vdW) forces, however, there is no clear demonstration of this. With the
isolation of two-dimensional vdW layered materials it is possible to test this
hypothesis. In this paper, we report the wetting behaviour of vdW
heterostructures which include, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown graphene,
molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and tungsten disulfide (WS2) on few layers of
hexagon boron nitride (h-BN) and SiO2/Si. Our study clearly shows that while
this class of two-dimensional materials are not wetting transparent, there
seems to be a significant amount of influence on their wetting properties by
the underlying substrate due to dominant vdW forces. Contact angle measurements
indicate that graphene and graphene-like layered transitional metal
dichalcogenides invariably have intrinsically dispersive surfaces with a
dominating London-vdW force-mediated wettability. Electric field controlled
wetting studies of MoS2/WS2/SiO2/Si heterostructures were performed and no
notable changes to the water contact angle was seen with applied voltage
although two orders of magnitude change in resistance was observed. We
postulate that the highly dispersive nature of these surfaces arising from the
predominant London-vdW forces could be the reason for such observation.
