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Impact of surface forces on wetting of hierarchical surfaces and contact angle hysteresis

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The influence of the long-range surface forces on the wetting of multi-scale partially wetted surfaces is discussed. The possibility of partial wetting is stipulated by a specific form of the Derjaguin isotherm. Equilibrium of a liquid meniscus inside a cylindrical capillary is used as a model. The interplay of capillary and disjoining pressures governs the equilibrium of the liquid in the nano- and micrometrically scaled pores constituting the relief of the surface. It is shown that capillaries with a radius smaller than a critical one will be completely filled by water, whereas the larger capillaries will be filled only partially. Thus, small capillaries will show the Wenzel type of wetting behavior, while the same liquid inside the large capillaries will promote the Cassie-Baxter type of wetting. Consideration of disjoining/conjoining pressure allows explaining of the “rose petal effect”, when a high apparent contact angle is accompanied with a high contact angle hysteresis.

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Acknowledgments

EB is grateful to Dr. G. Whyman for extremely fruitful discussions. EB is indebted to Mrs. Ye. Bormashenko for her help in preparing this paper.

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  1. Physics Faculty, Ariel University Center of Samaria, P.O.B. 3, 40700, Ariel, Israel

    Edward Bormashenko

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE 11 3TU, UK

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Bormashenko, E., Starov, V. Impact of surface forces on wetting of hierarchical surfaces and contact angle hysteresis. Colloid Polym Sci 291, 343–346 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-012-2785-9

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