Contact angle hysteresis(CAH) is one of the significant physical phenomena in electrowetting on dielectric(EWOD).In this work, a theoretical model is proposed to characterize electrowetting evolution on substrates wit...Contact angle hysteresis(CAH) is one of the significant physical phenomena in electrowetting on dielectric(EWOD).In this work, a theoretical model is proposed to characterize electrowetting evolution on substrates with CAH, and the relationship among apparent contact angle, potential, and some other parameters is quantified. And this theory is also validated experimentally. The results indicate that our theory and equation based on energy balance succeed in describing the electrowetting response of potential with significant contact angle hysteresis. The CAH in EWOD, ranging from 0° to about 20° in electrowetting cycle, increases with the increase of voltage and climbs up to about 20° when voltage is increased to about 38 V, and then decreases to zero with the further increase of voltage.展开更多
An approach of dealing with contact angle hysteresis in lattice Boltzmann method is introduced in detail.The approach is also used to investigate droplet behaviors on surfaces of chemical inhomogeneities or roughness(...An approach of dealing with contact angle hysteresis in lattice Boltzmann method is introduced in detail.The approach is also used to investigate droplet behaviors on surfaces of chemical inhomogeneities or roughness(non-ideal surfaces).Droplet slipping on surfaces under gravity or in shear flows,and droplet impacting on surfaces are numerically simulated.It is found that the present approach is suitable to model droplet motions on non-ideal surfaces and the contact angle hysteresis has an obvious effect on the motion of droplets.展开更多
It is known that contact lines keep relatively still on solids until static contact angles exceed an interval of hysteresis of static contact angle (HSCA), and contact angles keep changing as contact lines relatively ...It is known that contact lines keep relatively still on solids until static contact angles exceed an interval of hysteresis of static contact angle (HSCA), and contact angles keep changing as contact lines relatively slide on the solid. Here, the effects of HSCA and boundary slip were first distinguished on the micro-curvature force (MCF) on the seta. Hence, the total MCF is partitioned into static and dynamic MCFs correspondingly. The static MCF was found proportional to the HSCA and related with the asymmetry of the micro-meniscus near the seta. The dynamic MCF, exerting on the relatively sliding contact line, is aroused by the boundary slip. Based on the Blake-Haynes mechanism, the dynamic MCF was proved important for water walking insects with legs slower than the minimum wave speed . As insects brush the water by laterally swinging legs backwards, setae on the front side of the leg are pulled and the ones on the back side are pushed to cooperatively propel bodies forward. If they pierce the water surface by vertically swinging legs downwards, setae on the upside of the legs are pulled, and the ones on the downside are pushed to cooperatively obtain a jumping force. Based on the dependency between the slip length and shear rate, the dynamic MCF was found correlated with the leg speed U, as , where and are determined by the dimple depth. Discrete points on this curve could give fitted relations as (Suter et al., J. Exp. Biol. 200, 2523-2538, 1997). Finally, the axial torque on the inclined and partially submerged seta was found determined by the surface tension, contact angle, HSCA, seta width, and tilt angle. The torque direction coincides with the orientation of the spiral grooves of the seta, which encourages us to surmise it is a mechanical incentive for the formation of the spiral morphology of the setae of water striders.展开更多
The formation mechanism of the contact angle and the sliding angle for a liquid drop on a solid surface plays an important role in producing hydrophobic surfaces. A new half soakage model is established in this paper ...The formation mechanism of the contact angle and the sliding angle for a liquid drop on a solid surface plays an important role in producing hydrophobic surfaces. A new half soakage model is established in this paper as a substitute for Wenzel （complete soakage） and Cassie （no soakage） models. The model is suited to many solid surfaces, whether they are hydrophilic or hydrophobic, or even superhydrophobic. Based on the half soakage model, we analyse two surfaces resembling lotus, i.e. taper-like surface and corona-like surface. Furthermore, this new model is used to establish a quantitative relationship between the sliding angle and the parameters of surface morphology.展开更多
The wettability of the solid surface is often characterized by the contact angle of the liquid on the solid surface. However, it has long been found that the contact angle of liquid on a solid surface can take a range...The wettability of the solid surface is often characterized by the contact angle of the liquid on the solid surface. However, it has long been found that the contact angle of liquid on a solid surface can take a range of values between two extremes： the advancing and the receding contact angles. The difference between the advancing and the receding contact angles is conventionally called contact angle hysteresis. Knowledge of contact angle hysteresis is essential to understand surface wettability and control surface wetting behavior. The wettability can be affected, for example, by the roughness of the solid surface. In our work, textile is used as macroscopic roughness surfaces, and smooth plate surface is used as well to determine contact angle hysteresis. The advancing and receding contact angles are measured on polyamide materials.展开更多
Droplet impact on solid surfaces plays a critical role in a wide range of applications,including inkjet printing,spray cooling,surface coatings,and microdroplet chemistry.Precise control of droplet–surface interactio...Droplet impact on solid surfaces plays a critical role in a wide range of applications,including inkjet printing,spray cooling,surface coatings,and microdroplet chemistry.Precise control of droplet–surface interactions is essential,but the fundamental mechanisms governing this process are still not fully understood.In this study,we demonstrate that large contact angle hysteresis(CAH)on hydrophobic nanoporous surfaces significantly amplifies post-impact droplet oscillations.This reveals the critical influence of CAH on the redistribution of impact energy and the modulation of droplet–surface interactions.Using shape mode decomposition via Legendre polynomials and fast Fourier transform spectral analysis,we show that surfaces with larger CAH excite and sustain higher-order droplet shape mode oscillations,leading to persistent capillary waves even after contact line pinning.The observed amplitude modulation and multiple frequency components within individual shape modes reveal nonlinear energy transfer between different modes.These amplified and coupled oscillations are shown to promote daughter droplet coalescence.This study presents a framework for understanding the role of CAH in storing and redistributing impact energy through nonlinear mode excitation and establishes CAH as a critical design parameter for controlling fluid dynamics on solid surfaces.展开更多
Contact angle is an essential parameter to characterize substrate wettability.The measurement of contact angle in experiment and simulation is a complex and time-consuming task.In this paper,an improved method of meas...Contact angle is an essential parameter to characterize substrate wettability.The measurement of contact angle in experiment and simulation is a complex and time-consuming task.In this paper,an improved method of measuring contact angle in multiphase lattice Boltzmann simulations is proposed,which can accurately obtain the real-time contact angle at a low temperature and larger density ratio.The three-phase contact point is determined by an extrapolation,and its position is not affected by the local deformation of flow field in the three-phase contact region.A series of simulations confirms that the present method has high accuracy and gird-independence.The contact angle keeps an excellent linear relationship with the chemical potential of the surface,so that it is very convenient to specify the wettability of a surface.The real-time contact angle measurement enables us to obtain the dynamic contact angle hysteresis on chemically heterogeneous surface,while the mechanical analyses can be effectively implemented at the moving contact line.展开更多
When variations occur in the water content or dry bulk density of soil,the contact angle hysteresis will affect the soil-water characteristic curve(SWCC).The occurrence of the contact angle hysteresis can be divided i...When variations occur in the water content or dry bulk density of soil,the contact angle hysteresis will affect the soil-water characteristic curve(SWCC).The occurrence of the contact angle hysteresis can be divided into slipping and pinning.It is difficult to determine the effect of pinning existence on SWCC by tests.In this study,the effect of contact angle hysteresis on SWCC was analyzed either in the case of no variations in soil dry bulk density with changes in soil water content or no variations in soil water content with changes in soil dry bulk density.In both cases,soil particles were simplified to the spherical particle model.Based on the geometrically mechanic relationship between the particles and connecting liquid bridges,a physical model for predicting the SWCC was derived from the spherical particle model.Adjusting parameters made the model applicable to various soils,that is,the cohesive soil was considered as micron-sized spherical particles.Through the simulations on SWCC test data of sand,silt,clay,and swelling soil,it was confirmed that the physical model possessed good reliability and practicability.Finally,the analysis of rationality of contact angle was performed based on the basic assumptions of the model.展开更多
Recent studies have shown that the triple-phase contact line has critical effect on the contact angle hysteresis of surfaces.In this study,patterned surfaces with various surface structures of different area fractions...Recent studies have shown that the triple-phase contact line has critical effect on the contact angle hysteresis of surfaces.In this study,patterned surfaces with various surface structures of different area fractions were prepared by electron etching on a silicon wafer.The advancing angle,receding angle and hysteresis angle of these surfaces were measured.Our experimental results showed that while the geometry of microstructure and contact line have a minor effect on the advancing angle,they have a significant effect on the receding angle and thus the hysteresis angle.We have shown that the effect of microstructure and the contact line can be described by a quantitative parameter termed the triple-phase line ratio.The theoretical predictions were in good agreement with our experimental results.展开更多
Recently,super gas wet and gas wet surfaces have been extensively attended in petroleum industry,as supported by the increasing number of publications in the last decade related to wettability alteration in gas conden...Recently,super gas wet and gas wet surfaces have been extensively attended in petroleum industry,as supported by the increasing number of publications in the last decade related to wettability alteration in gas condensate reservoirs.In many cases,contact angle measurement has been employed to assess the wettability alteration.Even though contact angle measurement seems to be a straightforward approach,there exist many misuses of this technique and consequently misinterpretation of the corresponding results.In this regard,a critical inspection of the most recent updated concepts and the intervening parameters in the contact angle based wettability evaluation of liquid-solid-gas systems could aid to provide some remediation to alleviate this problem.To this end,this work presents a survey on the accurate terms and rigorous protocols based on the community of surface science and chemistry.As a preliminary step,advancing,receding,static,and the most stable contact angle terminology are defined.The study is followed by the definition of the contact angle hysteresis effect.The application of surface free energy in the selection of the best gas wet agent is then analyzed.Afterward,the impact of the size-dependent behavior of drop on contact angle is discussed.Finally,a sessile drop experiment is explained to achieve the defined parameters.For future contributions to petroleum industry journals,like this journal,this work could offer an easy use of the conceptual framework for analyzing the results and comparative evaluations in chemical wettability modifier agents.展开更多
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,China(Grant No.BK2011752)
文摘Contact angle hysteresis(CAH) is one of the significant physical phenomena in electrowetting on dielectric(EWOD).In this work, a theoretical model is proposed to characterize electrowetting evolution on substrates with CAH, and the relationship among apparent contact angle, potential, and some other parameters is quantified. And this theory is also validated experimentally. The results indicate that our theory and equation based on energy balance succeed in describing the electrowetting response of potential with significant contact angle hysteresis. The CAH in EWOD, ranging from 0° to about 20° in electrowetting cycle, increases with the increase of voltage and climbs up to about 20° when voltage is increased to about 38 V, and then decreases to zero with the further increase of voltage.
文摘An approach of dealing with contact angle hysteresis in lattice Boltzmann method is introduced in detail.The approach is also used to investigate droplet behaviors on surfaces of chemical inhomogeneities or roughness(non-ideal surfaces).Droplet slipping on surfaces under gravity or in shear flows,and droplet impacting on surfaces are numerically simulated.It is found that the present approach is suitable to model droplet motions on non-ideal surfaces and the contact angle hysteresis has an obvious effect on the motion of droplets.
文摘It is known that contact lines keep relatively still on solids until static contact angles exceed an interval of hysteresis of static contact angle (HSCA), and contact angles keep changing as contact lines relatively slide on the solid. Here, the effects of HSCA and boundary slip were first distinguished on the micro-curvature force (MCF) on the seta. Hence, the total MCF is partitioned into static and dynamic MCFs correspondingly. The static MCF was found proportional to the HSCA and related with the asymmetry of the micro-meniscus near the seta. The dynamic MCF, exerting on the relatively sliding contact line, is aroused by the boundary slip. Based on the Blake-Haynes mechanism, the dynamic MCF was proved important for water walking insects with legs slower than the minimum wave speed . As insects brush the water by laterally swinging legs backwards, setae on the front side of the leg are pulled and the ones on the back side are pushed to cooperatively propel bodies forward. If they pierce the water surface by vertically swinging legs downwards, setae on the upside of the legs are pulled, and the ones on the downside are pushed to cooperatively obtain a jumping force. Based on the dependency between the slip length and shear rate, the dynamic MCF was found correlated with the leg speed U, as , where and are determined by the dimple depth. Discrete points on this curve could give fitted relations as (Suter et al., J. Exp. Biol. 200, 2523-2538, 1997). Finally, the axial torque on the inclined and partially submerged seta was found determined by the surface tension, contact angle, HSCA, seta width, and tilt angle. The torque direction coincides with the orientation of the spiral grooves of the seta, which encourages us to surmise it is a mechanical incentive for the formation of the spiral morphology of the setae of water striders.
基金Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB302900)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50872129)
文摘The formation mechanism of the contact angle and the sliding angle for a liquid drop on a solid surface plays an important role in producing hydrophobic surfaces. A new half soakage model is established in this paper as a substitute for Wenzel （complete soakage） and Cassie （no soakage） models. The model is suited to many solid surfaces, whether they are hydrophilic or hydrophobic, or even superhydrophobic. Based on the half soakage model, we analyse two surfaces resembling lotus, i.e. taper-like surface and corona-like surface. Furthermore, this new model is used to establish a quantitative relationship between the sliding angle and the parameters of surface morphology.
文摘The wettability of the solid surface is often characterized by the contact angle of the liquid on the solid surface. However, it has long been found that the contact angle of liquid on a solid surface can take a range of values between two extremes： the advancing and the receding contact angles. The difference between the advancing and the receding contact angles is conventionally called contact angle hysteresis. Knowledge of contact angle hysteresis is essential to understand surface wettability and control surface wetting behavior. The wettability can be affected, for example, by the roughness of the solid surface. In our work, textile is used as macroscopic roughness surfaces, and smooth plate surface is used as well to determine contact angle hysteresis. The advancing and receding contact angles are measured on polyamide materials.
基金supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research(BMBF)within the project H2Giga-SINEWAVE OxySep,grant no 03HY123Eand the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering at TU Dresden.Pengfei Zhao would like to acknowledge the China Scholarship Council(CSC)+3 种基金supported by a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundationthe financial support from Qinghai Province(No.2025ZY001,2024000060)Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.2023000024)funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:Project ID 265191195-SFB1194 and 456180046.
文摘Droplet impact on solid surfaces plays a critical role in a wide range of applications,including inkjet printing,spray cooling,surface coatings,and microdroplet chemistry.Precise control of droplet–surface interactions is essential,but the fundamental mechanisms governing this process are still not fully understood.In this study,we demonstrate that large contact angle hysteresis(CAH)on hydrophobic nanoporous surfaces significantly amplifies post-impact droplet oscillations.This reveals the critical influence of CAH on the redistribution of impact energy and the modulation of droplet–surface interactions.Using shape mode decomposition via Legendre polynomials and fast Fourier transform spectral analysis,we show that surfaces with larger CAH excite and sustain higher-order droplet shape mode oscillations,leading to persistent capillary waves even after contact line pinning.The observed amplitude modulation and multiple frequency components within individual shape modes reveal nonlinear energy transfer between different modes.These amplified and coupled oscillations are shown to promote daughter droplet coalescence.This study presents a framework for understanding the role of CAH in storing and redistributing impact energy through nonlinear mode excitation and establishes CAH as a critical design parameter for controlling fluid dynamics on solid surfaces.
基金the Guangxi Bagui Scholar Teams for Innovation and Research Projectthe National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12272100,81860635,and 12062005)。
文摘Contact angle is an essential parameter to characterize substrate wettability.The measurement of contact angle in experiment and simulation is a complex and time-consuming task.In this paper,an improved method of measuring contact angle in multiphase lattice Boltzmann simulations is proposed,which can accurately obtain the real-time contact angle at a low temperature and larger density ratio.The three-phase contact point is determined by an extrapolation,and its position is not affected by the local deformation of flow field in the three-phase contact region.A series of simulations confirms that the present method has high accuracy and gird-independence.The contact angle keeps an excellent linear relationship with the chemical potential of the surface,so that it is very convenient to specify the wettability of a surface.The real-time contact angle measurement enables us to obtain the dynamic contact angle hysteresis on chemically heterogeneous surface,while the mechanical analyses can be effectively implemented at the moving contact line.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50979028)the Program of the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources(No.200801065)
文摘When variations occur in the water content or dry bulk density of soil,the contact angle hysteresis will affect the soil-water characteristic curve(SWCC).The occurrence of the contact angle hysteresis can be divided into slipping and pinning.It is difficult to determine the effect of pinning existence on SWCC by tests.In this study,the effect of contact angle hysteresis on SWCC was analyzed either in the case of no variations in soil dry bulk density with changes in soil water content or no variations in soil water content with changes in soil dry bulk density.In both cases,soil particles were simplified to the spherical particle model.Based on the geometrically mechanic relationship between the particles and connecting liquid bridges,a physical model for predicting the SWCC was derived from the spherical particle model.Adjusting parameters made the model applicable to various soils,that is,the cohesive soil was considered as micron-sized spherical particles.Through the simulations on SWCC test data of sand,silt,clay,and swelling soil,it was confirmed that the physical model possessed good reliability and practicability.Finally,the analysis of rationality of contact angle was performed based on the basic assumptions of the model.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 0902015 and 11025208)the Research Funds for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant Nos.20091101120001 and 20111101110003)
文摘Recent studies have shown that the triple-phase contact line has critical effect on the contact angle hysteresis of surfaces.In this study,patterned surfaces with various surface structures of different area fractions were prepared by electron etching on a silicon wafer.The advancing angle,receding angle and hysteresis angle of these surfaces were measured.Our experimental results showed that while the geometry of microstructure and contact line have a minor effect on the advancing angle,they have a significant effect on the receding angle and thus the hysteresis angle.We have shown that the effect of microstructure and the contact line can be described by a quantitative parameter termed the triple-phase line ratio.The theoretical predictions were in good agreement with our experimental results.
文摘Recently,super gas wet and gas wet surfaces have been extensively attended in petroleum industry,as supported by the increasing number of publications in the last decade related to wettability alteration in gas condensate reservoirs.In many cases,contact angle measurement has been employed to assess the wettability alteration.Even though contact angle measurement seems to be a straightforward approach,there exist many misuses of this technique and consequently misinterpretation of the corresponding results.In this regard,a critical inspection of the most recent updated concepts and the intervening parameters in the contact angle based wettability evaluation of liquid-solid-gas systems could aid to provide some remediation to alleviate this problem.To this end,this work presents a survey on the accurate terms and rigorous protocols based on the community of surface science and chemistry.As a preliminary step,advancing,receding,static,and the most stable contact angle terminology are defined.The study is followed by the definition of the contact angle hysteresis effect.The application of surface free energy in the selection of the best gas wet agent is then analyzed.Afterward,the impact of the size-dependent behavior of drop on contact angle is discussed.Finally,a sessile drop experiment is explained to achieve the defined parameters.For future contributions to petroleum industry journals,like this journal,this work could offer an easy use of the conceptual framework for analyzing the results and comparative evaluations in chemical wettability modifier agents.
