๐”– Bobbio Scriptorium
โœฆ   LIBER   โœฆ

Wetting Behaviours of a Single Droplet on Biomimetic Micro Structured Surfaces

โœ Scribed by Y.Q. Zu; Y.Y. Yan; J.Q. Li; Z.W. Han


Publisher
SciencePress (China)
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
945 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
1672-6529

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

โœฆ Synopsis


Natural surfaces with super hydrophobic properties often have micro or hierarchical structures. In this paper, the wetting behaviours of a single droplet on biomimetic micro structured surfaces with different roughness parameters are investigated. A theoretical model is proposed to study wetting transitions. The results of theoretical analysis are compared with those of experiment indicating that the proposed model can effectively predict the wetting transition. Furthermore, a numerical simulation based on the meso scale Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) is performed to study dynamic contact angles, contact lines, and local velocity fields for the case that a droplet displays on the micro structured surface. A spherical water droplet with r s = 15 m falls down to a biomimetic square-post patterned surface under the force of gravity with an initial velocity of 0.01 mโ€ขs 1 and an initial vertical distance of 20 m from droplet centre to the top of pots. In spite of a higher initial velocity, the droplet can still stay in a Cassie state; moreover, it reaches an equilibrium state at t 17.5 ms, when contact angle is 153.16 which is slightly lower than the prediction of Cassie-Baxter's equation which gives CB = 154.40 .


๐Ÿ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES


Micropatterns of Non-Circular Droplets o
โœ Tae Hee Kim; Youn Jung Park; Giyoung Song; Dong Ha Kim; June Huh; Olaf Karthaus; ๐Ÿ“‚ Article ๐Ÿ“… 2012 ๐Ÿ› John Wiley and Sons ๐ŸŒ English โš– 952 KB

## Abstract A method to fabricate micropatterns of nonโ€circular droplets of a selfโ€assembled block copolymer by solventโ€assisted wetting on chemically periodic surface is presented. The block copolymer is dewetted on a topographic preโ€pattern to form an array of microdroplets with a sphereโ€capped s

Silicon-modified surfactants and wetting
โœ R. Wagner; Y. Wu; H. v. Berlepsch; F. Rexin; T. Rexin; L. Perepelittchenko ๐Ÿ“‚ Article ๐Ÿ“… 1999 ๐Ÿ› John Wiley and Sons ๐ŸŒ English โš– 139 KB ๐Ÿ‘ 2 views

The spreading behaviour of binary and ternary equimolar mixtures of siloxane surfactants of general formula [(CH 3 ) 3 SiO] 2 CH 3 Si(CH 2 ) 3 (OCH 2 CH 2 ) n OCH 3 , n = 3-9, has been investigated. The mixtures show a pronounced temperature dependence on the initial spreading rate. Mixtures imitati

The influence of surface structure on we
โœ Ping Shen; Hidetoshi Fujii; Taihei Matsumoto; Kiyoshi Nogi ๐Ÿ“‚ Article ๐Ÿ“… 2003 ๐Ÿ› Elsevier Science ๐ŸŒ English โš– 281 KB

An improved sessile-drop wetting experiment was performed in this study to investigate the wettability and adhesion of molten Al on three different oriented a-Al 2 O 3 single crystals, R (0112), A(1120) and C(0001), over a wide temperature range from 800-1500 ยฐC in a reduced Ar-3%H 2 atmosphere. It