Surface heterogeneity and contact angle hysteresis |
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Authors: | D. Li A. W. Neumann |
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Affiliation: | (1) Present address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, M5S 1A4 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | The effect of surface heterogeneity on contact angle hysteresis is studied by using the model of Neumann and Good of a vertical plate with horizontal heterogeneous strips. The results of this study explain well known, but not understood patterns of contact angle behaviour: On the one hand, the advancing contact angle on a carefully prepared solid surface is generally reproducible; on the other hand, even a very small amount of surface heterogeneity may cause the receding contact angle to be less reproducible and to depend on several non-thermodynamic factors. |
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Keywords: | Contactangles thermodynamics ofwetting heterogeneoussurfaces contact anglehysteresis |
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