Dipole-dependent slip of Newtonian liquids at smooth solid hydrophobic surfaces

We present atomic force microscopy observations of the "effective" slippage of various nonpolar and polar liquids on alkylsilane coated glass surfaces. For small contact angle nonpolar liquids, the slip length decreases as one approaches a wetting transition. However, for large contact angle polar liquids it is found that the slip length is primarily influenced by the dipole moment, rather than the wettability of the liquid for the surface, where the slip length decreases with increasing dipole moment.     

Rate-dependent slip of Newtonian liquid at smooth surfaces

Newtonian fluids were placed between molecularly smooth surfaces whose spacing was vibrated at spacings where the fluid responded as a continuum. Hydrodynamic forces agreed with predictions from the no-slip boundary condition only provided that flow rate (peak velocity normalized by spacing) was low, but implied partial slip when it exceeded a critical level, different in different systems, correlated with contact angle (surface wettability). With increasing flow rate and partially wetted surfaces, hydrodynamic forces became up to 2-4 orders of magnitude less than expected by assuming the no-slip boundary condition that is commonly stated in textbooks.     

微通道疏水表面滑移的耗散粒子动力学研究

了解疏水表面的滑移规律对其在流动减阻方面的应用至关重要.利用耗散粒子动力学(dissipative particle dynamics, DPD)方法研究了微通道疏水表面的滑移现象.采用固定住的粒子并配合修正的向前反弹机制,构建了DPD固体壁面边界模型,利用该边界模型模拟了平板间的Couette流动.研究结果表明,通过调整壁面与流体间排斥作用强度,壁面能实现从无滑移到滑移的转变,壁面与流体间排斥作用越强,即疏水性越强,壁面滑移越明显,并且滑移长度与接触角之间存在近似的二次函数关系.无滑移时壁面附近密度分布均匀,有滑移时壁面附近存在低密度区域,低密度区域阻碍了动量传递,致使壁面产生滑移.     

疏水表面滑移流动及减阻特性的格子Boltzmann方法模拟

采用格子Boltzmann方法研究了固体壁面对流体的作用强度与其润湿性的关系,在此基础上进一步模拟了疏水表面微通道内的流体流动,获得了润湿性对疏水表面滑移流动及减阻特性的影响规律,证实了疏水表面表观滑移的存在性并揭示了其产生机理.结果表明,疏水性作用在疏水表面的近壁区诱导了一个低密度层,而表观滑移则发生在低密度层上.表观滑移是疏水表面具有减阻作用的直接原因,减阻效果随滑移长度的增大而增大.对于特定的流体系统,滑移长度是疏水表面的固有属性,仅是壁面润湿性的单一函数,而与流动本身的性质无关.     

Wetting property of smooth and textured hydrophobic surfaces under condensation condition

Static and dynamic wetting behaviors of sessile droplet on smooth, microstructured and micro/nanostructured surface under condensation condition are systematically studied. In contrast to the conventional droplet wetting on such natural materials by dropping, we demonstrate here that when dropwise condensation occurs, the sessile droplet will transit from the Cassie-Baxter wetting state to the Wenzel wetting state or partial Cassie-Baxter wetting state on the microstructured surface or the micro/nanostructured surface, which leads to a strong adhesion between the droplet and the substrate. In contrast, the apparent contact angle and the sliding angle on the smooth surface changes a little before and after the condensation because of small roughness. Theoretical analysis shows that the roughness factor controls the adhesion force of the droplet during condensation, and a theoretical model is constructed which will be helpful for us to understand the relationship between the adhesion force and the geometry of the surface.     

Hydrodynamic force measurements: boundary slip of water on hydrophilic surfaces and electrokinetic effects

The hydrodynamic drainage force of aqueous medium between smooth hydrophilic surfaces was measured with the colloidal probe technique up to shear rates of typically 10(4) s(-1). Measured force curves were compared to simulations. To reach agreement between experimental and simulated force curves, the hydrodynamic force had to be fitted with a model allowing for boundary slippage. Boundary slip was characterized by a slip length of 8-9 nm. Force measurements with charged surfaces could be simulated taking only hydrodynamic and electrostatic double-layer forces into account.     

Nanodroplets on rough hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces

We present results of Molecular Dynamics (MD) calculations on the behavior of liquid nanodroplets on rough hydrophobic and hydrophilic solid surfaces. On hydrophobic surfaces, the contact angle for nanodroplets depends strongly on the root-mean-square roughness amplitude, but it is nearly independent of the fractal dimension of the surface. Since increasing the fractal dimension increases the short-wavelength roughness, while the long-wavelength roughness is almost unchanged, we conclude that for hydrophobic interactions the short-wavelength (atomistic) roughness is not very important. We show that the nanodroplet is in a Cassie-like state. For rough hydrophobic surfaces, there is no contact angle hysteresis due to strong thermal fluctuations, which occur at the liquid-solid interface on the nanoscale. On hydrophilic surfaces, however, there is strong contact angle hysteresis due to higher energy barrier. These findings may be very important for the development of artificially biomimetic superhydrophobic surfaces.     

Modeling surfactant adsorption on hydrophobic surfaces

Surfactant adsorption on hydrophobic surfaces is of current interest in attempts to solubilize single-wall carbon nanotubes and to render quantum dots biocompatible. A coarse grained method is presented for incorporating a hydrophobic surface into existing liquid force fields by appealing to statistical mechanics and probability theory. The dimensionality problem which arises is overcome with an approximate treatment and the entire procedure is applied to aqueous n-alkyl poly(ethylene oxide) adsorbing onto a graphite surface. The simulations are in excellent agreement with atomic force microscopy data. The mechanism of micelle adsorption onto a partially coated surface is reported for the first time and has implications for the construction of nanotemplates.     

Adsorption and nucleation on smooth surfaces

The nucleation and growth of condensate nuclei on smooth surfaces, e.g., an immiscible liquid or a smooth solid, can occur both by the direct addition of molecules from the vapor and from those adsorbed on the substrate. We show how to generalize nucleation theory to allow for the simultaneous occurrence of both mechanisms. The vapor-condensate-substrate interfacial forces, the contact angle, the critical supersaturation, and the coefficient in the adsorption isotherm are different ways of expressing the affinity between vapor molecules and the substrate surface. The critical supersaturations for nucleation on the surface of an immiscible liquid and nucleation on the surface of a perfectly smooth solid are predicted in terms of these parameters and the relationships among them. For most values of these parameters we find that adsorbed molecules are usually far more important to the nucleation process than those in the vapor phase.     

Gas adsorption and accumulation on hydrophobic surfaces:Molecular dynamics simulations

Molecular dynamics simulations show that the gas dissolved in water can be adsorbed at a hydrophobic interface and accumulates thereon. Initially, a water depletion layer appears on the hydrophobic interface. Gas molecules then enter the depletion layer and form a high-density gas-enriched layer. Finally, the gas-enriched layer accumulates to form a nanobubble. The radian of the nanobubble increases with time until equilibrium is reached. The equilibrium state arises through a Brenner–Lohse dynamic equilibrium mechanism, whereby the diffusive outflux is compensated by an influx near the contact line. Additionally, supersaturated gas also accumulates unsteadily in bulk water, since it can diffuse back into the water and is gradually adsorbed by a solid substrate.     

Rubber friction on smooth surfaces

We study the sliding friction for viscoelastic solids, e.g., rubber, on hard flat substrate surfaces. We consider first the fluctuating shear stress inside a viscoelastic solid which results from the thermal motion of the atoms or molecules in the solid. At the nanoscale the thermal fluctuations are very strong and give rise to stress fluctuations in the MPa-range, which is similar to the depinning stresses which typically occur at solid-rubber interfaces, indicating the crucial importance of thermal fluctuations for rubber friction on smooth surfaces. We develop a detailed model which takes into account the influence of thermal fluctuations on the depinning of small contact patches (stress domains) at the rubber-substrate interface. The theory predicts that the velocity dependence of the macroscopic shear stress has a bell-shaped form, and that the low-velocity side exhibits the same temperature dependence as the bulk viscoelastic modulus, in qualitative agreement with experimental data. Finally, we discuss the influence of small-amplitude substrate roughness on rubber sliding friction.     

Intrinsic structure of hydrophobic surfaces: the oil-water interface

We investigate the water-oil interface using molecular dynamics simulations of realistic models of alkanes and water. The intrinsic density profiles are computed using a methodology that removes the smoothing effect of the capillary waves. We show that at 300 K the intrinsic width of the gap separating the oil and water phases spans little more than one water molecule diameter, and undergoes very weak short-ranged fluctuations, indicating that the water-oil interface is a rigid molecular structure at ambient temperature. Only near the drying transition (above 500 K for dodecane), the gap features uncoupled fluctuations of the oil and water surfaces, as expected in a typical drying structure. We find that the intrinsic structure of water next to the oil phase is remarkably similar to the bare water-vapor interface.     

Characterisation and stability of hydrophobic surfaces in water

The stability of four different hydrophobic surfaces in contact with water is assessed and discussed: H-terminated silicon, hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) coated silicon, silicon surfaces covered with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) and gold surfaces modified with SAMs of alkanethiols. Changes in hydrophobicity and surface oxidation were determined by contact angle measurements, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and AFM.     

纳米颗粒吸附岩心表面的强疏水特征

通过将疏水的纳米颗粒吸附在岩心微通道壁面,可以形成具有类荷叶表面的双重微结构表面,从而在注水开发的过程中在岩心微通道壁面产生水流滑移,达到降低注水压力、增加注水量的目的.研究纳米颗粒吸附岩心切片表面的强疏水特征对纳米颗粒吸附法减阻技术具有重要的意义.本文简要叙述了荷叶、蚊子腿以及水黾腿的超疏水特征;介绍了制备具有亚微米、纳米双重微结构的强疏水表面的纳米颗粒吸附法;给出了规则排列时纳米颗粒吸附岩心切片表面的强疏水特征的物理机制,根据真实的纳米颗粒吸附岩心切片,给出了接触角的范围,计算结果与实验数据一致.岩心流动实验结果表明,经纳米颗粒分散液处理后,岩心的平均水相渗透率提高94%.     

Sliding behavior of water droplets on line-patterned hydrophobic surfaces

We prepared line-patterned hydrophobic surfaces using fluoroalkylsilane (FAS) and octadecyltrimethoxysilane (ODS) then investigated the effect of line direction on sliding behavior of water droplets by direct observation of the actual droplet motion during sliding. Water droplets slide down with a periodic large deformation of the contact line and sliding velocity fluctuation that occurred when they crossed over the 500-μm ODS line regions in FAS regions on a Si surface tilted at 35°. These behaviors are less marked for motion on a 100-μm line surface, or on lines oriented parallel to the slope direction. Smaller droplets slide down with greater displacement in the line direction on 500-μm line patterning when the lines were rotated at 13° in-plane for the slope direction. This sliding behavior depended on the droplet size and rotation angle, and is accountable by the balance between gravitational and retentive forces.     

Dynamic hydrophobicity of water droplets on the line-patterned hydrophobic surfaces

Static and dynamic hydrophobicities of water droplet on a patterned surface prepared using fluoroalkylsilanes with different molecular chain lengths were investigated. Contact angles on the patterned surfaces well agreed with values predicted using Cassie’s theory. On the same line width ratio, total retention force was governed by the fluoroalkylsilane with slow-sliding acceleration. The total retention force decreased with the decreasing width ratio of silane with slow-sliding acceleration on the surface. These results imply that the sliding acceleration of water droplets on a hydrophobic surface depends both on chemical composition and patterning structure.     

Study on the hydrophobic surfaces prepared by two-step sol-gel process

In this study, the two-step sol-gel process was used to prepare hydrophobic coating films on the glass substrates. The first step was to add hydrogen chloride into TEOS (tetraethoxysilane) solution, and then the second step was to add ammonia into the above reacted solution. We adopted different amount of hydrogen chloride and ammonia to control the sol-gel reaction and observed the change of the viscosity, gelatin period of the solution and contact angles of the coating films. By this method, we created a surface with roughness and then the hydroxyl groups were terminated by adding trimethylchlorosilane (TMCS) to produce a hydrophobic coating layer. The amount of the acid, base and water added in the solution influenced the reaction rate and resulted in the aggregation and condensation of the particles to form rough surfaces. Consequently, the rough surfaces made by aggregation and condensation of the large particles, which were modified by TMCS resulted in higher contact angles (>140°). In this study, a surface with contact angle 150° was obtained.     

High-dimensional Kuramoto model limited on smooth curved surfaces

In this Letter, a high-dimensional Kuramoto model limited on smooth curved surfaces is established. Some synchronization phenomena of this new model are displayed by simulations. A necessary and sufficient condition of equilibria is obtained and the linearized system around an equilibrium is derived. As the considered smooth curved surface is an ellipsoid, some dynamical properties including limit behavior and instability are obtained. Based on those results, almost global synchronization is achieved for the high-dimensional Kuramoto model limited on ellipsoids with complete or tree graphs. Moreover, numerical simulations are given to validate the obtained theoretical results.     

Atom dynamics of micro-clusters on atomically smooth surfaces

The partial phonon densities for different displacements of mono-atomic micro-clusters on atomically smooth surfaces of FCC crystals as well as for pyramidal micro-clusters on the surface of a BCC crystal are calculated by the Jacobi matrix method. The stability of these clusters is analyzed and the temperature dependencies of root-mean displacements are obtained for atoms in different positions of such structures.