J.H. Guan
Evaporation of Sessile Droplets on Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS)
Guan, J.H.; Wells, G.G.; Xu, B.; McHale, G.; Wood, D.; Martin, J.; Stuart-Cole, S.
Authors
G.G. Wells
B. Xu
G. McHale
D. Wood
J. Martin
S. Stuart-Cole
Abstract
Over the past decade, the most common approach to creating liquid shedding surfaces has been to amplify the effects of nonwetting surface chemistry, using micro/nanotexturing to create superhydrophobic and superoleophobic surfaces. Recently, an alternative approach using impregnation of micro/nanotextured surfaces with immiscible lubricating liquids to create slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) has been developed. These types of surfaces open up new opportunities to study the mechanism of evaporation of sessile droplets in zero contact angle hysteresis situations where the contact line is completely mobile. In this study, we fabricated surfaces consisting of square pillars (10–90 μm) of SU-8 photoresist arranged in square lattice patterns with the center-to-center separation between pillars of 100 μm, on which a hydrophobic coating was deposited and the textures impregnated by a lubricating silicone oil. These surfaces showed generally low sliding angles of 1° or less for small droplets of water. Droplet profiles were more complicated than on nonimpregnated surfaces and displayed a spherical cap shape modified by a wetting ridge close to the contact line due to balancing the interfacial forces at the line of contact between the droplet, the lubricant liquid and air (represented by a Neumann triangle). The wetting ridge leads to the concept of a wetting “skirt” of lubricant around the base of the droplet. For the SLIP surfaces, we found that the evaporation of small sessile droplets (∼2 mm in diameter) followed an ideal constant contact angle mode where the apparent contact angle was defined from the intersection of the substrate profile with the droplet spherical cap profile. A theoretical model based on diffusion controlled evaporation was able to predict a linear dependence in time for the square of the apparent contact radius. The experimental data was in excellent quantitative agreement with the theory and enabled estimates of the diffusion constant to be obtained.
Citation
Guan, J., Wells, G., Xu, B., McHale, G., Wood, D., Martin, J., & Stuart-Cole, S. (2015). Evaporation of Sessile Droplets on Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS). Langmuir, 31(43), 11781-11789. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03240
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 8, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 20, 2015 |
Publication Date | Nov 3, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Jan 4, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 8, 2016 |
Journal | Langmuir |
Print ISSN | 0743-7463 |
Electronic ISSN | 1520-5827 |
Publisher | American Chemical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 31 |
Issue | 43 |
Pages | 11781-11789 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03240 |
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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Langmuir, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03240.
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