Investigating the Adhesion of Water Droplets at Low Temperatures

Autor: Huiling Li, Min He, Xiping Zeng, Lei Jiang, Jianjun Wang, Yanlin Song
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Langmuir. 27:14995-14998
ISSN: 1520-5827
0743-7463
Popis: Adhesion of droplets to solid surfaces at low temperatures is crucial for antifogging and antifreezing, etc. So far, most reports on adhesion measurements have been carried out in air-liquid-solid systems, but it remains difficult to precisely investigate the adhesion at low temperatures due to the uncontrollable condensation. On the basis of the liquid-liquid-solid system, a new method to measure the adhesion of water droplets at low temperatures was developed and employed. Moreover, the reported method could be viable in other liquid-liquid-solid systems with wider temperature window; thus, it will find applications in broad fields such as crude oil recovery, ore-dressing, and transfer printing.
Databáze: OpenAIRE