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Grawitter J, Stark H. Steering droplets on substrates with plane-wave wettability patterns and deformations. SOFT MATTER 2024; 20:3161-3174. [PMID: 38517317 DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00213j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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Motivated by strategies for targeted microfluidic transport of droplets, we investigate how sessile droplets can be steered toward a preferred direction using travelling waves in substrate wettability or deformations of the substrate. To perform our numerical study, we implement the boundary-element method to solve the governing Stokes equations for the fluid flow field inside the moving droplet. In both cases we find two distinct modes of droplet motion. For small wave speed the droplet surfs with a constant velocity on the wave, while beyond a critical wave speed a periodic wobbling motion occurs, the period of which diverges at the transition. These observation can be rationalized by the nonuniform oscillator model and the transition described by a SNIPER bifurcation. For the travelling waves in wettability the mean droplet velocity in the wobbling state decays with the inverse wave speed. In contrast, for travelling-wave deformations of the substrate it is proportional to the wave speed at large speed values since the droplet always has to move up and down. To rationalize this behavior, the nonuniform oscillator model has to be extended. Since the critical wave speed of the bifurcation depends on the droplet radius, this dependence can be used to sort droplets by size.
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- Josua Grawitter
- Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
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Butt HJ, Liu J, Koynov K, Straub B, Hinduja C, Roismann I, Berger R, Li X, Vollmer D, Steffen W, Kappl M. Contact angle hysteresis. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2022.101574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Wu Y, Kuzina M, Wang F, Reischl M, Selzer M, Nestler B, Levkin PA. Equilibrium droplet shapes on chemically patterned surfaces: theoretical calculation, phase-field simulation, and experiments. J Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 606:1077-1086. [PMID: 34487930 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.08.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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HYPOTHESIS Droplet wetting on a solid substrate is affected by the surface heterogeneity. Introducing patterned wettability on the solid substrate is expected to engender anisotropic wetting morphologies, thereby manipulating droplet wetting behaviors. However, when the droplet size is comparable with that of the surface heterogeneity, the wetting morphologies cannot be depicted by the quintessential Cassie's theory but should be possible to be predicted from the perspective of thermodynamics via surface energy minimization. METHODS Here, we investigate the equilibrium droplet shapes on chemically patterned substrates by using an analytical model, phase-field simulations, and experiments. The former two methods are sharp and diffuse interface treatments, respectively, which both are based on minimizing the free energy of the system. The experimental results are obtained by depositing droplets on chemically patterned glass substrates. FINDINGS Various anisotropic wetting shapes are found from the three methods. Excellent agreement is observed between different methods, showing the possibility to quantify the anisotropic wetting droplet morphologies on patterned substrates by present methods. We also address a series of non-rotationally symmetric droplet shapes, which is the first resport about these special wetting morphologies. Furthermore, we reveal the anisotropic wetting shapes in a quasi-equilibrium evaporation process.
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- Yanchen Wu
- Institute of Applied Materials-Computational Materials Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz Pl. 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Materials-Computational Materials Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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- Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz Pl. 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Materials-Computational Materials Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany; Institute of Digital Materials Science, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Moltkestraße 30, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Materials-Computational Materials Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany; Institute of Digital Materials Science, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Moltkestraße 30, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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- Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz Pl. 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Castigliano M, Recupido F, Petala M, Kostoglou M, Caserta S, Karapantsios TD. Wetting of Dehydrated Hydrophilic Pseudomonas fluorescens Biofilms under the Action of External Body Forces. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:10890-10901. [PMID: 34314173 PMCID: PMC8459453 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Wetting of dehydrated Pseudomonas fluorescens biofilms grown on glass substrates by an external liquid is employed as a means to investigate the complex morphology of these biofilms along with their capability to interact with external fluids. The porous structure left behind after dehydration induces interesting droplet spreading on the external surface and imbibition into pores upon wetting. Static contact angles and volume loss by imbibition measured right upon droplet deposition indicate that biofilms of higher incubation times show a higher porosity and effective hydrophilicity. Furthermore, during subsequent rotation tests, using Kerberos device, these properties dictate a peculiar forced wetting/spreading behavior. As rotation speed increases a long liquid tail forms progressively at the rear part of the droplet, which stays pinned at all times, while only the front part of the droplet depins and spreads. Interestingly, the experimentally determined retention force for the onset of droplet sliding on biofilm external surface is lower than that on pure glass. An effort is made to describe such complex forced wetting phenomena by presenting apparent contact angles, droplet length, droplet shape contours, and edges position as obtained from detailed image analysis.
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- Michela Castigliano
- Department
of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering (DICMaPi), University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125, Naples, Italy
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- Division
of Chemical Technology, School of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Box 116, 54 124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department
of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, 54 124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Division
of Chemical Technology, School of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Box 116, 54 124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department
of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering (DICMaPi), University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125, Naples, Italy
- CEINGE
Advanced Biotechnology, 80145 Naples, Italy
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- Division
of Chemical Technology, School of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Box 116, 54 124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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Ajaev VS, Gatapova EY, Kabov OA. Interaction of advancing contact lines with defects on heated substrates. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:022801. [PMID: 32168621 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.022801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We consider an advancing contact line traveling over a region of locally modified wetting or thermal substrate properties. A lubrication-type model is developed to account for coupling of viscous flow, evaporation, surface tension, and disjoining pressure. Stick-slip-type behavior is found for a range of conditions as the contact line passes over the defect and explained by a temporary increase in the local stresses disrupting the liquid supply into the contact line region. A simple estimate of the degree of contact line slowdown is obtained and compared with the numerical simulation results. Tangential stresses arising from the action of the electric field on the interfacial changes are accounted for in our model; neglecting them would lead to an overprediction of the time of interaction between the contact line and the defect. Increasing the substrate temperature uniformly has little effect on contact line motion, but local increase of the temperature enhances the tendency of the contact line to be pulled back by the defect, an effect explained by the Marangoni stresses.
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- Vladimir S Ajaev
- Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Lavrentyev Ave., 1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Lavrentyev Ave., 1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Öztürk Ö, Servantie J. Statics and dynamics of polymeric droplets on chemically homogeneous and heterogeneous substrates. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:023113. [PMID: 31574604 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.023113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We present a molecular dynamics study of the motion of cylindrical polymer droplets on striped surfaces. We first consider the equilibrium properties of droplets on different surfaces, we show that for small stripes the Cassie-Baxter equation gives a good approximation of the equilibrium contact angle. As the stripe width becomes nonnegligible compared to the dimension of the droplet, it has to deform significantly to minimize its free energy; this results in a smaller value of the contact angle than the continuum model predicts. We then evaluate the slip length and thus the damping coefficient as a function of the stripe width. For very small stripes, the heterogeneous surface behaves as an effective surface, with the same damping as a homogeneous surface with the same contact angle. However, as the stripe width increases, damping at the surface increases until reaching a plateau. Afterwards, we study the dynamics of droplets under a bulk force. We show that if the stripes are large enough the droplets are pinned until a critical force. The critical force increases linearly with stripe width. For large enough forces, the average velocity increases linearly with the force, we show that it can then be predicted by a model depending only on droplet size, contact angle, viscosity, and slip length. We show that the velocity of the droplet varies sinusoidally as a function of its position on the substrate. However, for bulk forces just above the depinning force we observe a characteristic stick-slip motion, with successive pinnings and depinnings.
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- Ö Öztürk
- Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak 34469, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak 34469, Istanbul, Turkey
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Alvarez-Socorro AJ, Clerc MG, Ferré MA, Knobloch E. Front depinning by deterministic and stochastic fluctuations: A comparison. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:062226. [PMID: 31330663 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.062226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Driven dissipative many-body systems are described by differential equations for macroscopic variables which include fluctuations that account for ignored microscopic variables. Here, we investigate the effect of deterministic fluctuations, drawn from a system in a state of phase turbulence, on front dynamics. We show that despite these fluctuations a front may remain pinned, in contrast to fronts in systems with Gaussian white noise fluctuations, and explore the pinning-depinning transition. In the deterministic case, this transition is found to be robust but its location in parameter space is complex, generating a fractal-like structure. We describe this transition by deriving an equation for the front position, which takes the form of an overdamped system with a ratchet potential and chaotic forcing; this equation can, in turn, be transformed into a linear parametrically driven oscillator with a chaotically oscillating frequency. The resulting description provides an unambiguous characterization of the pinning-depinning transition in parameter space. A similar calculation for noise-driven front propagation shows that the pinning-depinning transition is washed out.
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- A J Alvarez-Socorro
- Departamento de Física and Millennium Institute for Research in Optics, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 487-3, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Física and Millennium Institute for Research in Optics, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 487-3, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Física and Millennium Institute for Research in Optics, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 487-3, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Zhao J, Chen S, Liu Y. Droplets motion on chemically/topographically heterogeneous surfaces. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2016.1198478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Nagai KH, Tachibana K, Tobe Y, Kazama M, Kitahata H, Omata S, Nagayama M. Mathematical model for self-propelled droplets driven by interfacial tension. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:114707. [PMID: 27004893 DOI: 10.1063/1.4943582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We propose a model for the spontaneous motion of a droplet induced by inhomogeneity in interfacial tension. The model is derived from a variation of the Lagrangian of the system and we use a time-discretized Morse flow scheme to perform its numerical simulations. Our model can naturally simulate the dynamics of a single droplet, as well as that of multiple droplets, where the volume of each droplet is conserved. We reproduced the ballistic motion and fission of a droplet, and the collision of two droplets was also examined numerically.
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- Ken H Nagai
- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido 060-0812, Japan
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Ajaev VS, Gatapova EY, Kabov OA. Stability and break-up of thin liquid films on patterned and structured surfaces. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2016; 228:92-104. [PMID: 26792018 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2015.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2015] [Revised: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Solid surfaces with chemical patterning or topographical structure have attracted attention due to many potential applications such as manufacture of flexible electronics, microfluidic devices, microscale cooling systems, as well as development of self-cleaning, antifogging, and antimicrobial surfaces. In many configurations involving patterned or structured surfaces, liquid films are in contact with such solid surfaces and the issue of film stability becomes important. Studies of stability in this context have been largely focused on specific applications and often not connected to each other. The purpose of the present review is to provide a unified view of the topic of stability and rupture of liquid films on patterned and structured surfaces, with particular focus on common mathematical methods, such as lubrication approximation for the liquid flow, bifurcation analysis, and Floquet theory, which can be used for a wide variety of problems. The physical mechanisms of the instability discussed include disjoining pressure, thermocapillarity, and classical hydrodynamic instability of gravity-driven flows. Motion of a contact line formed after the film rupture is also discussed, with emphasis on how the receding contact angle is expected to depend on the small-scale properties of the substrate.
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Zhan Y, Zhao J, Liu W, Yang B, Wei J, Yu Y. Biomimetic Submicroarrayed Cross-Linked Liquid Crystal Polymer Films with Different Wettability via Colloidal Lithography. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2015; 7:25522-8. [PMID: 26509215 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Photoresponsive cross-linked liquid crystal polymer (CLCP) films with different surface topographies, submicropillar arrays, and submicrocone arrays were fabricated through colloidal lithography technique by modulating different types of etching masks. The prepared submicropillar arrays were uniform with an average pillar diameter of 250 nm and the cone bottom diameter of the submicrocone arrays was about 400 nm, which are much smaller than previously reported CLCP micropillars. More interestingly, these two species of films with the same chemical structure represented completely different wetting behavior of water adhesion and mimicked rose petal and lotus leaf, respectively. Both the submicropillar arrayed film and the submicrocone arrayed film exhibited superhyrophobicity with a water contact angle (CA) value of 144.0 ± 1.7° and 156.4 ± 1.2°, respectively. Meanwhile, the former demonstrated a very high sliding angle (SA) greater than 90°, and thus, the water droplet was pinned on the surface as rose petal. On the contrary, the SA of the submicrocone arrayed CLCP film consisting of micro- and nanostructure was only 3.1 ± 2.0°, which is as low as that of lotus leaf. Furthermore, the change on the wettability of the films was also investigated under alternating irradiation of visible light with two different wavelengths, blue light and green light.
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- Yuanyuan Zhan
- Department of Materials Science & State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Materials Science & State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , Changchun 130012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , Changchun 130012, China
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- Department of Materials Science & State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Materials Science & State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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Lopez JM, Marques F. Dynamics of axially localized states in Taylor-Couette flows. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:053011. [PMID: 26066253 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.053011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We present numerical simulations of the flow confined in a wide gap Taylor-Couette system, with a rotating inner cylinder and variable length-to-gap aspect ratio. A complex experimental bifurcation scenario differing from the classical Ruelle-Takens route to chaos has been experimentally reported in this geometry. The wavy vortex flow becomes quasiperiodic due to an axisymmetric very low frequency mode. This mode plays a key role in the dynamics of the system, leading to the occurrence of chaos via a period-doubling scenario. Further increasing the rotation of the inner cylinder results in the appearance of a new flow pattern which is characterized by large amplitude oscillations localized in some of the vortex pairs. The purpose of this paper is to study numerically the dynamics of these axially localized states, paying special attention to the transition to chaos. Frequency analysis from time series simultaneously recorded at several points has been applied in order to identify the flow transitions taking place. It has been found that the very low frequency mode is essential to explain the behavior associated with the different transitions towards chaos including localized states.
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- Jose M Lopez
- Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
- Departament de Física Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, E-Barcelona 08034, Spain
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- Departament de Física Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, E-Barcelona 08034, Spain
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Cavalli A, Musterd M, Mugele F. Numerical investigation of dynamic effects for sliding drops on wetting defects. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:023013. [PMID: 25768603 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.023013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The ability to trap or deflect sliding drops is of great interest in microfluidics, as it has several technological applications, ranging from self-cleaning and fog harvesting surfaces to laboratory-on-a-chip devices. We present a three-dimensional numerical model that describes sliding droplets interacting with wetting defects of variable strength and size. This approach provides relevant insight if compared to simplified analytic models, as it allows us to assess the relevance of the internal degrees of freedom of the droplet. We observe that the deformation of the drop enhances the effective strength and range of the defect, and we quantify this effect by comparison to a point-mass model. We also analyze the role of the steepness and strength of the defect on the drop motion, observing that small, strong defects are more effective at trapping than large, shallow traps of same excess surface energy. Finally, our results show quantitative agreement with previously reported electrowetting experiments, suggesting a universal behavior in droplet trapping that does not depend strongly on the nature of the defect.
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- Andrea Cavalli
- Physics of Complex Fluids and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Product and Process Engineering, TNW-PPE/TP, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Complex Fluids and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands
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Wilczek M, Gurevich SV. Locking of periodic patterns in Cahn-Hilliard models for Langmuir-Blodgett transfer. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 90:042926. [PMID: 25375586 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.042926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The influence of a periodic spatial forcing on the pattern formation in a generalized Cahn-Hilliard model describing Langmuir-Blodgett transfer is studied. The occurring locking effects enable a control mechanism for the pattern formation process. In the one-dimensional case the parameter range in which patterns are created is increased and the patterns' properties can be adjusted in a broader range. In two dimensions, one-dimensional stripe patterns can be destabilized, giving rise to a multitude of complex two-dimensional structures, including oblique and lattice patterns.
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- Markus Wilczek
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Sah A. Precursor film: a key driver to determine wetting behavior in the vicinity of surface heterogeneity. SOFT MATTER 2014; 10:3890-3896. [PMID: 24791277 DOI: 10.1039/c3sm52707g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Experimental findings in the recent past have clearly emphasized the role of the three-phase contact line in determining the wetting behavior of liquids. However, at a microscopic level when the precursor film precedes the contact line, the role of thin film in wetting behavior becomes important. The current study presents a series of simple experiments to establish the role of precursor films in controlling the wetting behavior in the context of rising liquids in vertical planes. The experiments have been performed on glass capillaries and cover slips which have been rendered partially hydrophobic by silanisation of some portion. Thus, two regions of significantly different wetting behavior have been created. Experiments have been performed to capture the changes in wetting behavior as manifested by variation in capillary rise height and Wilhelmy force values, where hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions meet each other. The deviations in expected wetting behavior as the liquid approaches the boundary between the two regions from the hydrophilic end have demonstrated the role of precursor films in wetting behavior.
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- Amit Sah
- Unilever Research India, c/o Hindustan Unilever Research Centre, 64 Main road, Whitefield, Bangalore 560066, India.
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Controlling the motion of drops on solid surfaces is crucial in many natural phenomena and technological processes including the collection and removal of rain drops, cleaning technology and heat exchangers. Topographic and chemical heterogeneities on solid surfaces give rise to pinning forces that can capture and steer drops in desired directions. Here we determine general physical conditions required for capturing sliding drops on an inclined plane that is equipped with electrically tunable wetting defects. By mapping the drop dynamics on the one-dimensional motion of a point mass, we demonstrate that the trapping process is controlled by two dimensionless parameters, the trapping strength measured in units of the driving force and the ratio between a viscous and an inertial time scale. Complementary experiments involving superhydrophobic surfaces with wetting defects demonstrate the general applicability of the concept. Moreover, we show that electrically tunable defects can be used to guide sliding drops along actively switchable tracks-with potential applications in microfluidics.
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Varagnolo S, Schiocchet V, Ferraro D, Pierno M, Mistura G, Sbragaglia M, Gupta A, Amati G. Tuning drop motion by chemical patterning of surfaces. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:2401-9. [PMID: 24533817 DOI: 10.1021/la404502g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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We report the results of extensive experimental studies of the sliding of water drops on chemically heterogeneous surfaces formed by square and triangular hydrophobic domains printed on glass surfaces and arranged in various symmetric patterns. Overall, the critical Bond number, that is, the critical dimensionless force needed to depin the drop, is found to be strongly affected by the shape and the spatial arrangement of the domains. Soon after the droplet begins to move, stick-slip motion is observed on all surfaces, although it is less pronounced than that on striped surfaces. On the triangular patterns, anisotropic behavior is found with drops sliding down faster when the tips of the glass hydrophilic triangles are pointing in the down-plane direction. Away from the critical Bond number, the dynamic regime depends mainly on the static contact angle and weakly on the actual surface pattern. Lattice Boltzmann numerical simulations are performed to validate the experimental results and test the importance of the viscous ratio between the droplet phase and the outer phase.
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- S Varagnolo
- CNISM and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia G. Galilei, Università di Padova , via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
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Sbragaglia M, Biferale L, Amati G, Varagnolo S, Ferraro D, Mistura G, Pierno M. Sliding drops across alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic stripes. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:012406. [PMID: 24580236 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.012406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We perform a joint numerical and experimental study to systematically characterize the motion of 30 μl drops of pure water and of ethanol in water solutions, sliding over a periodic array of alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic stripes with a large wettability contrast and a typical width of hundreds of microns. The fraction of the hydrophobic areas has been varied from about 20% to 80%. The effects of the heterogeneous patterning can be described by a renormalized value of the critical Bond number, i.e., the critical dimensionless force needed to depin the drop before it starts to move. Close to the critical Bond number we observe a jerky motion characterized by an evident stick-slip dynamics. As a result, dissipation is strongly localized in time, and the mean velocity of the drops can easily decrease by an order of magnitude compared to the sliding on the homogeneous surface. Lattice Boltzmann numerical simulations are crucial for disclosing to what extent the sliding dynamics can be deduced from the computed balance of capillary, viscous, and body forces by varying the Bond number, the surface composition, and the liquid viscosity. Beyond the critical Bond number, we characterize both experimentally and numerically the dissipation inside the droplet by studying the relation between the average velocity and the applied volume forces.
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- M Sbragaglia
- Department of Physics and INFN, University of "Tor Vergata," Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Physics and INFN, University of "Tor Vergata," Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
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- SCAI, SuperComputing Applications and Innovation, Department CINECA, Via dei Tizii, I-00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "G. Galilei" and CNISM, Universitá di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "G. Galilei" and CNISM, Universitá di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "G. Galilei" and CNISM, Universitá di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "G. Galilei" and CNISM, Universitá di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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Varagnolo S, Ferraro D, Fantinel P, Pierno M, Mistura G, Amati G, Biferale L, Sbragaglia M. Stick-slip sliding of water drops on chemically heterogeneous surfaces. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 111:066101. [PMID: 23971591 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.066101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2013] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We present a comprehensive study of water drops sliding down chemically heterogeneous surfaces formed by a periodic pattern of alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic stripes. Drops are found to undergo a stick-slip motion whose average speed is an order of magnitude smaller than that measured on a homogeneous surface having the same static contact angle. This motion is the result of the periodic deformations of the drop interface when crossing the stripes. Numerical simulations confirm this view and are used to elucidate the principles underlying the experimental observations.
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- S Varagnolo
- CNISM and Department of Physics and Astronomy G. Galilei, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
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Marques F, Meseguer A, Lopez JM, Pacheco JR, Lopez JM. Bifurcations with imperfect SO(2) symmetry and pinning of rotating waves. Proc Math Phys Eng Sci 2013. [DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Rotating waves are periodic solutions in SO(2) equivariant dynamical systems. Their precession frequency changes with parameters and it may change sign, passing through zero. When this happens, the dynamical system is very sensitive to imperfections that break the SO(2) symmetry and the waves may become trapped by the imperfections, resulting in steady solutions that exist in a finite region in parameter space. This is the so-called pinning phenomenon. In this study, we analyse the breaking of the SO(2) symmetry in a dynamical system close to a Hopf bifurcation whose frequency changes sign along a curve in parameter space. The problem is very complex, as it involves the complete unfolding of high codimension. A detailed analysis of different types of imperfections indicates that a pinning region surrounded by infinite-period bifurcation curves appears in all cases. Complex bifurcational processes, strongly dependent on the specifics of the symmetry breaking, appear very close to the intersection of the Hopf bifurcation and the pinning region. Scaling laws of the pinning region width and partial breaking of SO(2) to
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- Francisco Marques
- Departament de Física Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Girona Salgado s/n, Mòdul B4 Campus Nord, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Física Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Girona Salgado s/n, Mòdul B4 Campus Nord, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- Departament de Física Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Girona Salgado s/n, Mòdul B4 Campus Nord, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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Rahman MA, Jacobi AM. Wetting behavior and drainage of water droplets on microgrooved brass surfaces. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:13441-13451. [PMID: 22909187 DOI: 10.1021/la302669g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In the present study, contact angle hysteresis and sliding behavior of water droplets on parallel, periodic microgrooved brass surfaces are investigated experimentally for enhancement of water drainage and compared to that on flat baseline surfaces. The surfaces (a total of 17 microgrooved samples, with a range of groove depth of 22 to 109 μm, pillar width of 26 to 190 μm, and groove width of 103 and 127 μm) are fabricated using a mechanical micromachining process. The wetting state and shape/elongation of deposited water droplets, anisotropy of the contact angle hysteresis, and the drainage behavior of water droplets on the microgrooved surfaces are found to be strongly dependent on the topography of the groove geometry, which is analyzed in detail. The wetting state is found to be Wenzel for microgrooved surfaces with very low aspect ratio (<0.2) and narrow pillars (pillar width to groove width ratio of ≈0.2), and also for the two deepest grooved surfaces of two different sample series, all of which exhibit high contact angle hysteresis. Mechanisms of the advancing and receding motions are identified. The critical sliding angle (the angle from horizontal at incipient motion of the advancing confluence) for the microgrooved surfaces is found to be significantly smaller than for flat surfaces. The sliding angle exhibits significant groove geometry dependence and is found to increase with pillar width and decrease with groove depth. The findings of this study may be useful in a broad range of applications where water retention plays an important role.
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- M Ashiqur Rahman
- Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
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Kitahata H, Yoshinaga N, Nagai KH, Sumino Y. Spontaneous motion of a droplet coupled with a chemical wave. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 84:015101. [PMID: 21867241 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.015101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2010] [Revised: 05/24/2011] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We propose a framework for the spontaneous motion of a droplet coupled with internal dynamic patterns generated in a reaction-diffusion system. The spatiotemporal order of the chemical reaction gives rise to inhomogeneous surface tension and results in self-propulsion driven by the surrounding flow due to the Marangoni effect. Numerical calculations of internal patterns together with theoretical results of the flow fields at low Reynolds number reproduce well the experimental results obtained using a droplet of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction medium.
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- Hiroyuki Kitahata
- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
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Pototsky A, Archer AJ, Savel'ev SE, Thiele U, Marchesoni F. Ratcheting of driven attracting colloidal particles: temporal density oscillations and current multiplicity. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 83:061401. [PMID: 21797358 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.83.061401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We consider the unidirectional particle transport in a suspension of colloidal particles which interact with each other via a pair potential having a hard-core repulsion plus an attractive tail. The colloids are confined within a long narrow channel and are driven along by a dc or an ac external potential. In addition, the walls of the channel interact with the particles via a ratchetlike periodic potential. We use dynamical density functional theory to compute the average particle current. In the case of dc drive, we show that as the attraction strength between the colloids is increased beyond a critical value, the stationary density distribution of the particles loses its stability leading to depinning and a time-dependent density profile. Attraction induced symmetry breaking gives rise to the coexistence of stable stationary density profiles with different spatial periods and time-periodic density profiles, each characterized by different values for the particle current.
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- Andrey Pototsky
- Department of Mathematics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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Borcia R, Menzel S, Bestehorn M, Karpitschka S, Riegler H. Delayed coalescence of droplets with miscible liquids: Lubrication and phase field theories. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2011; 34:24. [PMID: 21380645 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2011-11024-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2010] [Accepted: 01/26/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Mixing of droplets with a body of different liquids shows an interesting behavior for small contact angles at solid substrate. The droplets interact with each other, a liquid exchange appears between the approaching drops owing to surface tension gradients at the droplets interface. But the drops remain separated for some seconds (up to minutes), until the merging into a single drop occurs (Langmuir 24, 6395 (2008)). We investigate this phenomenon using lubrication approximation and phase field approach. For both methods, 2D quantitative computer simulations for delayed fusion of perfectly miscible thin liquid films/droplets with low contact angles are reported.
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- R Borcia
- Lehrstuhl Statistische Physik/Nichtlineare Dynamik, Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus, Germany.
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Beltrame P, Knobloch E, Hänggi P, Thiele U. Rayleigh and depinning instabilities of forced liquid ridges on heterogeneous substrates. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 83:016305. [PMID: 21405772 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.83.016305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Depinning of two-dimensional liquid ridges and three-dimensional drops on an inclined substrate is studied within the lubrication approximation. The structures are pinned to wetting heterogeneities arising from variations of the strength of the short-range contribution to the disjoining pressure. The case of a periodic array of hydrophobic stripes transverse to the slope is studied in detail using a combination of direct numerical simulation and branch-following techniques. Under appropriate conditions the ridges may either depin and slide downslope as the slope is increased, or first break up into drops via a transverse instability, prior to depinning. The different transition scenarios are examined together with the stability properties of the different possible states of the system.
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- Philippe Beltrame
- UMR EmmaH 1114, Département de Physique, Université d'Avignon, F-84000 Avignon, France.
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Köpf MH, Gurevich SV, Friedrich R. Controlled nanochannel lattice formation utilizing prepatterned substrates. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 83:016212. [PMID: 21405765 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.83.016212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2010] [Revised: 12/08/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Solid substrates can be endued with self-organized regular stripe patterns of nanoscopic length scale by Langmuir-Blodgett transfer of organic monolayers. Here we consider the effect of periodically prepatterned substrates on this process of pattern formation. It leads to a time periodic forcing of the oscillatory behavior at the meniscus. Utilizing higher-order synchronization with this forcing, complex periodic patterns of predefined wavelength can be created. The dependence of the synchronization on the amplitude and the wavelength of the wetting contrast is investigated in one and two spatial dimensions, and the resulting patterns are discussed. Furthermore, the effect of prepatterned substrates on the pattern selection process is investigated.
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- Michael H Köpf
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
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Ohkuma T, Ohta T. Deformable self-propelled particles with a global coupling. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2010; 20:023101. [PMID: 20590297 DOI: 10.1063/1.3374362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We have proposed a model of deformable self-propelled particles in which the time-evolution equations are given in terms of the center-of-mass velocity and a nematic order parameter representing the motion-induced deformation [T. Ohta and T. Ohkuma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 154101 (2009)]. We investigate its many-body problem applying a global orientational coupling. Depending on the strength of the interaction, the self-propelled particles exhibit various kinds of collective dynamics and chaotic behavior: a ballistic procession state, a scattered state, a coherently phase synchronized state, two types of in-phase synchronized state, and an anomalously diffusive state. The phase reduction method for the weak coupling regime reveals the bifurcations between the secular collective motions. The phase boundary among the chaos regime and the synchronized regimes is determined by the linear stability analysis of the synchronized states.
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- Takahiro Ohkuma
- Department of Physics, School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Lv C, Yang C, Hao P, He F, Zheng Q. Sliding of water droplets on microstructured hydrophobic surfaces. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2010; 26:8704-8708. [PMID: 20205409 DOI: 10.1021/la9044495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Sliding behaviors of liquid droplets on solid surfaces are among the fundamental results of wettability. To remedy the lack of quantitative correlation between sliding angle and roughness of the surface, which is known to be effective at enhancing wettability, we report in this paper the observation that the onset of water droplets sliding under gravity on inclined micropillar-structured hydrophobic surfaces always starts with detachment of the rear contact lines of the droplets from the pillar tops. We also establish an explicit analytical model, based on the observed mechanism, by which the sliding angle is fully determined by the fraction of water-solid interface area, droplet volume, and Young's contact angle. This model gives predictions of sliding angles that agree well with experimental measurements.
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- Cunjing Lv
- Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Bergeon A, Knobloch E. Dynamics and formation of localized states in flowing thin films: Bound states of solitary waves. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/216/1/012001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Thiele U. Thin film evolution equations from (evaporating) dewetting liquid layers to epitaxial growth. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2010; 22:084019. [PMID: 21389395 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/8/084019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In the present contribution we review basic mathematical results for three physical systems involving self-organizing solid or liquid films at solid surfaces. The films may undergo a structuring process by dewetting, evaporation/condensation or epitaxial growth, respectively. We highlight similarities and differences of the three systems based on the observation that in certain limits all of them may be described using models of similar form, i.e. time evolution equations for the film thickness profile. Those equations represent gradient dynamics characterized by mobility functions and an underlying energy functional. Two basic steps of mathematical analysis are used to compare the different systems. First, we discuss the linear stability of homogeneous steady states, i.e. flat films, and second the systematics of non-trivial steady states, i.e. drop/hole states for dewetting films and quantum-dot states in epitaxial growth, respectively. Our aim is to illustrate that the underlying solution structure might be very complex as in the case of epitaxial growth but can be better understood when comparing the much simpler results for the dewetting liquid film. We furthermore show that the numerical continuation techniques employed can shed some light on this structure in a more convenient way than time-stepping methods. Finally we discuss that the usage of the employed general formulation does not only relate seemingly unrelated physical systems mathematically, but does allow as well for discussing model extensions in a more unified way.
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- U Thiele
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK
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Tadmor R, Bahadur P, Leh A, N'guessan HE, Jaini R, Dang L. Measurement of lateral adhesion forces at the interface between a liquid drop and a substrate. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 103:266101. [PMID: 20366322 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.266101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2009] [Revised: 10/19/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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A novel instrument allows for the first time measurements of the lateral adhesion forces at a solid-liquid interface, f(parallel), in a way that is decoupled from the normal forces, f(perpendicular). We use it to measure how f(parallel) between a drop and a surface is influenced by different f(perpendicular) and different histories of drop resting periods on the surface prior to sliding, t(rest). The variation of f(parallel) with t(rest) is similar for different f(perpendicular) and always plateaus as t(rest)-->infinity. We show that the f(parallel) plateau value is higher when f(perpendicular) is lower. This seemingly counterintuitive result is in agreement with recent theories.
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- Rafael Tadmor
- Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710, USA
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Teramoto T, Suzuki K, Nishiura Y. Rotational motion of traveling spots in dissipative systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 80:046208. [PMID: 19905416 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.80.046208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2009] [Revised: 06/30/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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What is the origin of rotational motion? An answer is presented through the study of the dynamics for spatially localized spots near codimension 2 singularity consisting of drift and peanut instabilities. The drift instability causes a head-tail asymmetry in spot shape, and the peanut one implies a deformation from circular to peanut shape. Rotational motion of spots can be produced by combining these instabilities in a class of three-component reaction-diffusion systems. Partial differential equations dynamics can be reduced to a finite-dimensional one by projecting it to slow modes. Such a reduction clarifies the bifurcational origin of rotational motion of traveling spots in two dimensions in close analogy to the normal form of 1:2 mode interactions.
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- Takashi Teramoto
- Faculty of Photonics Science, Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Chitose, Japan
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Ohta T, Ohkuma T. Deformable self-propelled particles. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 102:154101. [PMID: 19518636 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.154101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2008] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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A theory of self-propelled particles is developed in such a way that the particles can be deformed from a circular shape when the propagating velocity is finite. A coupled set of equations in terms of the velocity and a tensor variable is introduced to represent the motion of a deformed particle. It is shown that there is a bifurcation from a straight motion to a circular motion by increasing the propagating velocity. The dynamics of assembly of the particles is studied numerically in two dimensions imposing a global interaction such that the elongated particles tend to undergo an orientational order.
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- Takao Ohta
- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
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Moosavi A, Rauscher M, Dietrich S. Size dependent motion of nanodroplets on chemical steps. J Chem Phys 2008; 129:044706. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2955860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Moosavi A, Rauscher M, Dietrich S. Motion of nanodroplets near chemical heterogeneities. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2008; 24:734-742. [PMID: 18179260 DOI: 10.1021/la7017677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We investigate the dynamics of nanoscale droplets in the vicinity of chemical steps which separate parts of a substrate with different wettabilities. Due to long-ranged dispersion forces, nanodroplets positioned on one side of the step perceive the different character of the other side even at a finite distance from the step, leading to a dynamic response. The direction of the ensuing motion of such droplets depends not only on the difference between the equilibrium contact angles on these two parts but in particular on the difference between the corresponding Hamaker constants. Therefore, the motion is not necessarily directed toward the more wettable side and can also be different from that of droplets which span the step.
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- A Moosavi
- Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Heisenbergstr. 3, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
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Brunet P, Eggers J, Deegan RD. Vibration-induced climbing of drops. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2007; 99:144501. [PMID: 17930674 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.144501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We report an experimental study of liquid drops moving against gravity, when placed on a vertically vibrating inclined plate, which is partially wetted by the drop. The frequency of vibrations ranges from 30 to 200 Hz, and, above a threshold in vibration acceleration, drops experience an upward motion. We attribute this surprising motion to the deformations of the drop, as a consequence of an up or down symmetry breaking induced by the presence of the substrate. We relate the direction of motion to contact angle measurements. This phenomenon can be used to move a drop along an arbitrary path in a plane, without special surface treatments or localized forcing.
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- P Brunet
- Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, University Walk, BS8 1TW, Bristol, UK.
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Yochelis A, Knobloch E, Pismen LM. Formation and mobility of droplets on composite layered substrates. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2007; 22:41-9. [PMID: 17318293 DOI: 10.1140/epje/e2007-00011-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2006] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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A mesoscale fluid film placed on a solid support may break up and form droplets. In addition, droplets may exhibit spontaneous translation by modifying the wetting properties of the substrate, resulting in asymmetry in the contact angles. We examine mechanisms for droplet formation and motion on uniform and terraced landscapes, i.e., composite substrates. The fluid film stability, droplet formation and velocity are studied theoretically in the isothermal case using a lubrication approach in one spatial dimension. The droplet properties are found to involve contributions from both the terraced layer thickness and molecular interactions via the disjoining potential.
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- A Yochelis
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7300, USA.
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