Three-gradient regular solution model for simple liquids wetting complex surface topologies
Autor: | Frans A. M. Leermakers, Sabine Akerboom, Marleen Kamperman |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Materials science
Regular solution model Regular solution General Physics and Astronomy Wetting 02 engineering and technology lcsh:Chemical technology 010402 general chemistry Curvature lcsh:Technology 01 natural sciences Full Research Paper Physics::Fluid Dynamics Contact angle Optics Self-consistent field theory Perpendicular Nanotechnology Surface topology lcsh:TP1-1185 General Materials Science Electrical and Electronic Engineering lcsh:Science VLAG lcsh:T business.industry Plane (geometry) Mechanics 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology lcsh:QC1-999 0104 chemical sciences Nanoscience Discontinuity (linguistics) Wetting transition lcsh:Q Inverse opal 0210 nano-technology business Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter lcsh:Physics |
Zdroj: | Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 7 (2016) Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1377-1396 (2016) Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 7, 1377-1396 |
ISSN: | 2190-4286 1377-1396 |
DOI: | 10.3762/bjnano.7.129 |
Popis: | We use regular solution theory and implement a three-gradient model for a liquid/vapour system in contact with a complex surface topology to study the shape of a liquid drop in advancing and receding wetting scenarios. More specifically, we study droplets on an inverse opal: spherical cavities in a hexagonal pattern. In line with experimental data, we find that the surface may switch from hydrophilic (contact angle on a smooth surface θY < 90°) to hydrophobic (effective advancing contact angle θ > 90°). Both the Wenzel wetting state, that is cavities under the liquid are filled, as well as the Cassie–Baxter wetting state, that is air entrapment in the cavities under the liquid, were observed using our approach, without a discontinuity in the water front shape or in the water advancing contact angle θ. Therefore, air entrapment cannot be the main reason why the contact angle θ for an advancing water front varies. Rather, the contact line is pinned and curved due to the surface structures, inducing curvature perpendicular to the plane in which the contact angle θ is observed, and the contact line does not move in a continuous way, but via depinning transitions. The pinning is not limited to kinks in the surface with angles θkink smaller than the angle θY. Even for θkink > θY, contact line pinning is found. Therefore, the full 3D-structure of the inverse opal, rather than a simple parameter such as the wetting state or θkink, determines the final observed contact angle. |
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