Influence of substrate elasticity on droplet impact dynamics
| Autor: | Yun Zhu, Donald Joseph Buckley, Wen Shang, Ali Dhinojwala, Vaibhav Bahadur, M. S. Sohal, Azar Alizadeh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Materials science
Silicon technology industry and agriculture chemistry.chemical_element Nanotechnology macromolecular substances Surfaces and Interfaces Dissipation Condensed Matter Physics Viscoelasticity Physics::Fluid Dynamics chemistry Electrochemistry General Materials Science Elasticity (economics) Composite material Elastic modulus Impact dynamics Spectroscopy |
| Zdroj: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. 29(14) |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 |
| Popis: | Droplet impact dynamics is vital to the understanding of several phase-change and heat-transfer phenomena. This work examines the role of substrate elasticity on the spreading and retraction behavior of water droplets impacting flat and textured superhydrophobic substrates. Experiments reveal that droplet retraction on flat surfaces decreases with decreasing substrate elasticity. This trend is confirmed through a careful measurement of droplet impact dynamics on multiple PDMS surfaces with varying elastic moduli and comparison with impact dynamics on hard silicon surfaces. These findings reveal that surfaces tend to become more wettable upon droplet impact as the elastic modulus is decreased. First-order analyses are developed to explain this reduced retraction in terms of increased viscoelastic dissipation on soft substrates. Interestingly, superhydrophobic surfaces display substrate-elasticity-invariant impact dynamics. These findings are critical when designing polymeric surfaces for fluid-surface interaction applications. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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