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Direct and accurate measurement of size dependent wetting behaviors for sessile water droplets.


ABSTRACT: The size-dependent wettability of sessile water droplets is an important matter in wetting science. Although extensive studies have explored this problem, it has been difficult to obtain empirical data for microscale sessile droplets at a wide range of diameters because of the flaws resulting from evaporation and insufficient imaging resolution. Herein, we present the size-dependent quantitative change of wettability by directly visualizing the three phase interfaces of droplets using a cryogenic-focused ion beam milling and SEM-imaging technique. With the fundamental understanding of the formation pathway, evaporation, freezing, and contact angle hysteresis for sessile droplets, microdroplets with diameters spanning more than three orders of magnitude on various metal substrates were examined. Wetting nature can gradually change from hydrophobic at the hundreds-of-microns scale to super-hydrophobic at the sub-?m scale, and a nonlinear relationship between the cosine of the contact angle and contact line curvature in microscale water droplets was demonstrated. We also showed that the wettability could be further tuned in a size-dependent manner by introducing regular heterogeneities to the substrate.

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4677463 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Direct and accurate measurement of size dependent wetting behaviors for sessile water droplets.

Park Jimin J   Han Hyung-Seop HS   Kim Yu-Chan YC   Ahn Jae-Pyeong JP   Ok Myoung-Ryul MR   Lee Kyung Eun KE   Lee Jee-Wook JW   Cha Pil-Ryung PR   Seok Hyun-Kwang HK   Jeon Hojeong H  

Scientific reports 20151214


The size-dependent wettability of sessile water droplets is an important matter in wetting science. Although extensive studies have explored this problem, it has been difficult to obtain empirical data for microscale sessile droplets at a wide range of diameters because of the flaws resulting from evaporation and insufficient imaging resolution. Herein, we present the size-dependent quantitative change of wettability by directly visualizing the three phase interfaces of droplets using a cryogeni  ...[more]

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