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Jha A, Gryska S, Barrios C, Frechette J. Adhesion and Contact Aging of Acrylic Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives to Swollen Elastomers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:4267-4276. [PMID: 38359377 PMCID: PMC10906000 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Revised: 01/25/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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Fluid-infused (or swollen) elastomers are known for their antiadhesive properties. The presence of excess fluid at their surface is the main contributor to limiting contact formation and minimizing adhesion. Despite their potential, the mechanisms for adhesion and contact aging to fluid-infused elastomers are poorly understood beyond contact with a few materials (ice, biofilms, glass). This study reports on adhesion to a model fluid-infused elastomer, poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS), swollen with silicone oil. The effects of oil saturation, contact time, and the opposing surface are investigated. Specifically, adhesion to two different adherents with comparable surface energies but drastically different mechanical properties is investigated: a glass surface and a soft viscoelastic acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive film (PSA, modulus ∼25 kPa). Adhesion between the PSA and swollen PDMS [with 23% (w/w) silicone oil] retains up to 60% of its value compared to contact with unswollen (dry) PDMS. In contrast, adhesion to glass nearly vanishes in contact with the same swollen elastomer. Adhesion to the PSA also displays stronger contact aging than adhesion to glass. Contact aging with the PSA is comparable for dry and unsaturated PDMS. Moreover, load relaxation when the PSA is in contact with the PDMS does not correlate with contact aging for contact with the dry or unsaturated elastomer, suggesting that contact aging is likely caused by chain interpenetration and polymer reorganization within the contact region. Closer to full saturation of the PDMS with oil, adhesion to the PSA decreases significantly and shows a delay in the onset of contact aging that is weakly correlated to the poroelastic relaxation of the elastomer. Additional confocal imaging suggests that the presence of a layer of fluid trapped at the interface between the two solids could explain the delayed (and limited) contact aging to the oil-saturated PDMS.
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- Anushka Jha
- Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- 3M
Center, 3M Company, Building 201-4N-01, St. Paul, Minnesota 55144-1000, United States
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- Carlos
Barrios Consulting LLC, Frisco, Texas 75034, United States
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- Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering, University
of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Energy
Technology Area, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Shao X, Wang Y, Frechette J. Out-of-contact peeling caused by elastohydrodynamic deformation during viscous adhesion. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:134904. [PMID: 37787141 DOI: 10.1063/5.0167300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023] Open
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We report on viscous adhesion measurements conducted in sphere-plane geometry between a rigid sphere and soft surfaces submerged in silicone oils. Increasing the surface compliance leads to a decrease in the adhesive strength due to elastohydrodynamic deformation of the soft surface during debonding. The force-displacement and fluid film thickness-time data are compared to an elastohydrodynamic model that incorporates the force measuring spring and finds good agreement between the model and data. We calculate the pressure distribution in the fluid and find that, in contrast to debonding from rigid surfaces, the pressure drop is non-monotonic and includes the presence of stagnation points within the fluid film when a soft surface is present. In addition, viscous adhesion in the presence of a soft surface leads to a debonding process that occurs via a peeling front (located at a stagnation point), even in the absence of solid-solid contact. As a result of mass conservation, the elastohydrodynamic deformation of the soft surface during detachment leads to surfaces that come closer as the surfaces are separated. During detachment, there is a region with fluid drainage between the centerpoint and the stagnation point, while there is fluid infusion further out. Understanding and harnessing the coupling between lubrication pressure, elasticity, and surface interactions provides material design strategies for applications such as adhesives, coatings, microsensors, and biomaterials.
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- Xingchen Shao
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Pipeline Safety, Beijing Key Laboratory of Urban Oil and Gas Distribution Technology, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, 18# Fuxue Road, Changping District, 102249 Beijing, China
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Karnal P, Wang Y, Jha A, Gryska S, Barrios C, Frechette J. Interface Stabilization in Adhesion Caused by Elastohydrodynamic Deformation. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:138201. [PMID: 37831986 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.138201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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Interfacial instabilities are common phenomena observed during adhesion measurements involving viscoelastic polymers or fluids. Typical probe-tack adhesion measurements with soft adhesives are conducted with rigid probes. However, in many settings, such as for medical applications, adhesives make and break contact from soft surfaces such as skin. Here we study how detachment from soft probes alters the debonding mechanism of a model viscoelastic polymer film. We demonstrate that detachment from a soft probe suppresses Saffman-Taylor instabilities commonly encountered in adhesion. We suggest the mechanism for interface stabilization is elastohydrodynamic deformation of the probe and propose a scaling for the onset of stabilization.
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- Preetika Karnal
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lehigh University, 124 East Morton Street, Building 205, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA
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- College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- 3M Center, 3M Company, Building 201-4N-01, St. Paul, Minnesota 55144-1000, USA
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- Adaptive3D, 608 Development Drive, Plano, Texas 75074, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Jha A, Karnal P, Frechette J. Adhesion of fluid infused silicone elastomer to glass. SOFT MATTER 2022; 18:7579-7592. [PMID: 36165082 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00875k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Elastomers swollen with non-polar fluids show potential as anti-adhesive materials. We study the effect of oil fraction and contact time on the adhesion between swollen spherical probes of PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) and flat glass surfaces. The PDMS probes are swollen with pre-determined amount of 10 cSt silicone oil to span the range where the PDMS is fluid free (via solvent extraction) up to the limit where it is oil saturated. Probe tack measurements show that adhesion decreases rapidly with an increase in oil fraction. The decrease in adhesion is attributed to excess oil present at the PDMS-air interface. Contact angle measurements and optical microscopy images support this observation. Adhesion also increases with contact time for a given oil fraction. The increase in adhesion with contact time can be interpreted through different competing mechanisms that depend on the oil fraction where the dominant mechanism changes from extracted to fully swollen PDMS. For partially swollen PDMS, we observe that adhesion initially increases because of viscoelastic relaxation and at long times increases because of contact aging. In contrast, adhesion between fully swollen PDMS and glass barely increases over time and is mainly due to capillary forces. While the relaxation of PDMS in contact is well-described by a visco-poroelastic model, we do not see evidence that poroelastic relaxation of the PDMS contributes to an increase of adhesion with glass whether it is partially or fully swollen.
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- Anushka Jha
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lehigh University, 124 E Morton St, Building 205, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94760, USA.
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Joshipura ID, Persson KA, Truong VK, Oh JH, Kong M, Vong MH, Ni C, Alsafatwi M, Parekh DP, Zhao H, Dickey MD. Are Contact Angle Measurements Useful for Oxide-Coated Liquid Metals? LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:10914-10923. [PMID: 34491063 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This work establishes that static contact angles for gallium-based liquid metals have no utility despite the continued and common use of such angles in the literature. In the presence of oxygen, these metals rapidly form a thin (∼1-3 nm) surface oxide "skin" that adheres to many surfaces and mechanically impedes its flow. This property is problematic for contact angle measurements, which presume the ability of liquids to flow freely to adopt shapes that minimize the interfacial energy. We show here that advancing angles for a metal are always high (>140°)-even on substrates to which it adheres-because the solid native oxide must rupture in tension to advance the contact line. The advancing angle for the metal depends subtly on the substrate surface chemistry but does not vary strongly with hydrophobicity of the substrate. During receding measurements, the metal droplet initially sags as the liquid withdraws from the "sac" formed by the skin and thus the contact area with the substrate initially increases despite its volumetric recession. The oxide pins at the perimeter of the deflated "sac" on all the surfaces are tested, except for certain rough surfaces. With additional withdrawal of the liquid metal, the pinned angle gets smaller until eventually the oxide "sac" collapses. Thus, static contact angles can be manipulated mechanically from 0° to >140° due to hysteresis and are therefore uninformative. We also provide recommendations and best practices for wetting experiments, which may find use in applications that use these alloys such as soft electronics, composites, and microfluidics.
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- Ishan D Joshipura
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
- Materials Engineering Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 27695 California, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
- School of Science, College of Science, Engineering and Health, RMIT University, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695 North Carolina, United States
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Karnal P, Jha A, Wen H, Gryska S, Barrios C, Frechette J. Contribution of Surface Energy to pH-Dependent Underwater Adhesion of an Acrylic Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:5151-5161. [PMID: 30945867 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Maintaining the underwater adhesive performance over a broad range of solution pH is challenging but necessary for many biomedical applications. Therefore, understanding how environmental conditions influence the mechanisms of bonding and debonding of pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs) can provide guidelines for materials design. We investigate how the presence of acrylic acid as a co-monomer impacts the adhesion of a model PSA in aqueous environments of varying pH. The adhesives under investigation are poly(2-ethylhexyl acrylate), or poly(2-EHA), and poly(2-EHA) co-polymerized with 5 wt % acrylic acid, or poly(2-EHA- co-AA). We characterize bonding and debonding (adhesion) of the adhesives using probe tack measurements with a spherical hydrophobic glass probe. We analyze the performance of the two PSAs in air and in low-ionic-strength buffered aqueous solutions of pH 3- 11. We find that the presence of the acrylic acid co-monomer increases the cohesiveness of the PSA and leads to stronger adhesion under all conditions investigated. We also observe that the presence of the acrylic acid co-monomer imparts the PSA with a strong dependence of adhesion on the solution pH. Dynamic contact angle and ζ potential measurements support the hypothesis that deprotonation of the acrylic acid groups at higher pH causes the decrease in adhesion at higher pH. Rheological measurements do not show changes in the dynamic mechanical properties of the PSAs after exposure to solutions of pH 3- 11. Our measurements allow us to isolate the effect of the solution pH on the surface and bulk properties of the PSA. In the absence of the acrylic acid co-monomer, the bulk dissipation and the surface properties of the PSA are independent of the solution's pH.
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- 3M Center , 3M Company , Building 201-4N-01 , St. Paul , Minnesota 55144-1000 , United States
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- 3M Center , 3M Company , Building 201-4N-01 , St. Paul , Minnesota 55144-1000 , United States
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Ryu BK, Hommel RJ, Roberts P, Fréchette J. Promoting rotation, friction, and mixed lubrication for particles rolling on microstructured surfaces. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:022802. [PMID: 30934236 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.022802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We investigate how the aspect ratio of micropillar or microwell arrays patterned on a surface affects the rolling and slipping motion of spheres under flooded conditions at low Reynolds numbers. We study arrays of rigid microstructures with aspect ratios varying over two orders of magnitude for surface coverages ranging from 0.04 to 0.96. We investigate how the surface features (dimensions, surface coverage, and geometry) individually impact the motion of the sphere. We find that increasing microstructure height results in higher rotational velocities on all studied surfaces. We then model the motion of the spheres using two physical parameters: an effective separation and a coefficient of friction between the sphere and the incline. We find that a simple superposition of resistance functions, previously shown to accurately predict the motion of spheres for different surface coverages and geometries, indeed shows good agreement with experimental outcomes for all microstructure heights studied. We also perform separate sliding friction measurements via a force microscope to measure the coefficient of friction between the sphere and incline, under identically flooded conditions. A comparison of the sliding friction measurements at different Hersey numbers suggests that the effect of the microstructure on the coefficient of friction becomes more important as the Hersey number increases.
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- Brian K Ryu
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Wang Y, Frechette J. Morphology of soft and rough contact via fluid drainage. SOFT MATTER 2018; 14:7605-7614. [PMID: 30221276 DOI: 10.1039/c8sm00884a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The dynamic of contact formation between soft materials immersed in a fluid is accompanied by fluid drainage and elastic deformation. As a result, controlling the coupling between lubrication pressure and elasticity provides strategies to design materials with reversible and dynamic adhesion to wet or flooded surfaces. We characterize the elastic deformation of a soft coating with nanometer-scale roughness as it approaches and contacts a rigid surface in a fluid environment. The lubrication pressure during the approach causes elastic deformation and prevents contact formation. We observe deformation profiles that are drastically different from those observed for elastic half-space when the thickness of the soft coating is comparable to the hydrodynamic radius. In contrast, we show that surface roughness favors fluid drainage without altering the elastic deformation. As a result, the coupling between elasticity and slip (caused by surface roughness) can lead to trapped fluid pockets in the contact region.
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- Yumo Wang
- National Engineering Laboratory for Pipeline Safety, Beijing Key Laboratory of Urban Oil and Gas Distribution Technology, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, 18# Fuxue Road, Changping District, 102249 Beijing, China
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