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SUBMITTER: Antonini C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3920273 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antonini C C Lee J B JB Maitra T T Irvine S S Derome D D Tiwari Manish K MK Carmeliet J J Poulikakos D D
Scientific reports 20140211
In this report we show that synchrotron X-ray radiography is a powerful method to study liquid-air interface penetration through opaque microtextured surface roughness, leading to wetting transition. We investigate this wetting phenomenon in the context of sessile drop evaporation, and establish that liquid interface sinking into the surface texture is indeed dictated by the balance of capillary and Laplace pressures, where the intrinsically three-dimensional nature of the meniscus must be accou ...[more]