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Dynamical force and imaging characterization of superhydrophobic surfaces
Authors:Ng Tuck Wah  Panduputra Yohannes
Institution:Laboratory for Optics, Acoustics & Mechanics, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia. engngtw@gmail.com
Abstract:We devised a dangling cantilever optical lever setup with imaging that permits dynamical studies of superhydrophobic surfaces without the effects of gravitational acceleration for better insight into the mechanics. The setup enabled us to ascertain liquid loss and ascribe it to the interaction of liquid that just touched the superhydrophobic surface as it translated at various constant lateral speeds. At lower speeds (20-60 μm/s), the interactions were characterized by a strong initial liquid pin (at up to 0.6 nN force) and depin followed by a series of smaller force pin and depins before sufficient liquid loss led to total liquid detachment from the surface. At higher translation speeds (80-100 μm/s), the interactions were characterized by liquid pinning and depinning processes at a sustained force (around 0.7 nN) in which liquid loss was low enough to engender a much later liquid detachment (beyond 100 s). A linear reduction of the receding contact angle with time, but not with the advancing contact angle, was found up to the point of first liquid depinning. This suggested a stronger role played by the receding contact line in establishing liquid adherence to the superhydrophobic surface. The detachment process from the surface was also characterized by a liquid bridge driven to rupture by way of liquid being conveyed away from the bridge.
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