Discontinuous contact line motion of evaporating particle-laden droplet on superhydrophobic surfaces

Yutaka Yamada and Akihiko Horibe
Phys. Rev. E 97, 043113 – Published 20 April 2018

Abstract

The three-phase contact line motion on a superhydrophobic surface through particle-laden sessile droplet evaporation was investigated. Sample surfaces with micro- and nanoscale structures were generated by various durations of chemical treatment and SiO2 spherical particles with different sizes were used as additives of test liquid. The contact angle and contact radius profiles were studied, and the discontinuous motion of those profiles on micro- and nanostructured hierarchical surfaces was observed, while it was not observed on a nanostructured superhydrophobic surface. Suspensions with low particle concentration induced a relatively large contact radius jump compared to the high-concentrated condition; in contrast, the previous report showed the opposite trend for flat surfaces. In order to explain this result, a simple explanation was provided—that the stacked particles at the contact line region suppressed to the deformation of the liquid-vapor interface near the contact line. This is confirmed by side-view images of the deposition results because the contact line region after evaporation of the dense suspension showed a large contact angle compared to that of the diluted suspension. In addition, deposition at the contact line region was observed by scanning electron microscopy to discuss the effect of the characteristic length scale of the surface structure and particles on the contact line motion. We believe that these results will help one to understand the deposition phenomenon during particle-laden droplet evaporation on the superhydrophobic surface and its applications such as evaporation-driven materials deposition.

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  • Received 21 December 2017
  • Revised 7 February 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.043113

©2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Fluid Dynamics

Authors & Affiliations

Yutaka Yamada* and Akihiko Horibe

  • Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

  • *Corresponding author: y.yamada@okayama-u.ac.jp

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Vol. 97, Iss. 4 — April 2018

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