Wetting Behavior of Water Droplets on Hydrophobic Microtextures of Comparable Size Export

@article{citeulike:5436760, abstract = {PMID: 15518488 The wetting behavior of water droplets on periodically structured hydrophobic surfaces was investigated. The effect of structure geometry, roughness, and relative pore fraction on the contact angles was investigated experimentally for droplets of size comparable to the size of the structures. It was found that surface geometry may induce a transition from groove-filling and Wenzel-like behavior to nonfilling of surface grooves and consequential CassieBaxter behavior. Numerical calculations of the free energy of these systems suggest that the equilibrium behavior is in line with the experimental observations. The observations may serve as guidelines for the design of surfaces with the desired wetting behavior.}, author = {Jopp, Jurgen and Grull, Holger and Yerushalmi-Rozen, Rachel}, citeulike-article-id = {5436760}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la0497651}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la0497651}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1021/la0497651}, journal = {Langmuir}, keywords = {cassie, pdms, post, wenzel, wetting}, month = {November}, number = {23}, pages = {10015--10019}, posted-at = {2009-08-14 13:57:07}, priority = {2}, title = {Wetting Behavior of Water Droplets on Hydrophobic Microtextures of Comparable Size}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la0497651}, volume = {20}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5436760 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5436760 N2 - PMID: 15518488 The wetting behavior of water droplets on periodically structured hydrophobic surfaces was investigated. The effect of structure geometry, roughness, and relative pore fraction on the contact angles was investigated experimentally for droplets of size comparable to the size of the structures. It was found that surface geometry may induce a transition from groove-filling and Wenzel-like behavior to nonfilling of surface grooves and consequential CassieBaxter behavior. Numerical calculations of the free energy of these systems suggest that the equilibrium behavior is in line with the experimental observations. The observations may serve as guidelines for the design of surfaces with the desired wetting behavior. IS - 23 JF - Langmuir EP - 10019 TI - Wetting Behavior of Water Droplets on Hydrophobic Microtextures of Comparable Size VL - 20 SP - 10015 KW - cassie KW - pdms KW - post KW - wenzel KW - wetting AU - Jopp, Jurgen AU - Grull, Holger AU - Yerushalmi-Rozen, Rachel PY - 2004/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la0497651 ER -