Static and Dynamic Contact Angles of Water on Polymeric Surfaces

Autor: Masayo Miyama, and Tsumuko Okuno, Yanxia Yang, Takeshi Yasuda, Hirotsugu K. Yasuda
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Langmuir. 13:5494-5503
ISSN: 1520-5827
0743-7463
Popis: Static contact angle and dynamic (advancing and receding) contact angles of water on polymeric surfaces were investigated using microscope cover glasses coated with various plasma polymers of trimethylsilane and oxygen. By variation of the mole fraction of the TMS/oxygen mixture, glass surfaces having varying degrees of wettability were prepared. The advancing contact angle of a sessile droplet, which is independent of the droplet volume, is considered as the static contact angle of water on a polymeric surface, θS, which is a parameter characteristic to a polymeric surface. The dynamic contact angle of water refers to the contact angle of which three-phase contact line is in motion with respect to the surface. The dynamic advancing (immersing) contact angle, θD,a, and receding (emerging) contact angle, θD,r, were measured by the Wilhelmy balance. The difference between θD,a and θD,r is mainly due to the direction of dynamic force acting on the three-phase contact line. The discrepancy between the immersi...
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