Surprising Lack of Influence on Water Droplet Motion by Hydrophilic Microdomains on Checkerboard-like Surfaces with Matched Contact Angle Hysteresis
| Autor: | Brandon Becher-Nienhaus, Richard J. Archer, Atsushi Hozumi, Guojun Liu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Materials science
Microfluidics 02 engineering and technology Surfaces and Interfaces Substrate (electronics) 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Contact angle Hysteresis Chemisorption Monolayer Screen printing Electrochemistry General Materials Science Wetting Composite material 0210 nano-technology Spectroscopy |
| Zdroj: | Langmuir. 36:7835-7843 |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 0743-7463 |
| Popis: | Chemically and spatially micropatterned surfaces have been successfully prepared for a number of diverse applications, including water/fog harvesting, screen printing, microfluidics, and cell/protein assays. While there have been quite some reports on micropatterned surfaces, less is known about the factors that influence dynamic surface wettability. To that end, smooth checkerboard-like micropatterned hydrophobic/(super)hydrophilic surfaces (2, 5, 10, 20 μm pattern sizes) with regions of matching/mismatching contact angle hysteresis (CAH) were prepared on the basis of a simple chemisorption/photopatterning of monolayers. The effects of regional wettability/CAH and pattern size on the overall dynamic wettability were then examined by measuring the dynamic contact angles (CAs) and substrate tilt angles (θT) of water. It was found that the dynamic wettability on samples with matching regional CAH remained unchanged, even when using hydrophilic regions or changing the pattern size. In contrast, surfaces containing mismatching CAH regions pinned water droplets, leading to overall dynamic wetting properties markedly dependent on pattern size. In addition, the experimental data did not match values predicted by the Cassie equation because dynamic wetting behavior is dominated not by interfacial area but by the interactions of the liquid and solid at the three-phase contact line. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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