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Anomalous Contact Angle Hysteresis of a Captive Bubble: Advancing Contact Line Pinning.
Document Type
Article
Source
Langmuir. Jun2011, Vol. 27 Issue 11, p6890-6896. 7p.
Subject
*CONTACT angle
*HYSTERESIS
*BUBBLES
*FLUX pinning
*THERMODYNAMICS
*METALLIC glasses
*SOLID-liquid interfaces
*REARRANGEMENTS (Chemistry)
Language
ISSN
0743-7463
Abstract
Contact angle hysteresis of a sessile drop on a substrate consists of continuous invasion of liquid phase with the advancing angle (θa) and contact line pinning of liquid phase retreat until the receding angle (θr) is reached. Receding pinning is generally attributed to localized defects that are more wettable than the rest of the surface. However, the defect model cannot explain advancing pinning of liquid phase invasion driven by a deflating bubble and continuous retreat of liquid phase driven by the inflating bubble. A simple thermodynamic model based on adhesion hysteresis is proposed to explain anomalous contact angle hysteresis of a captive bubble quantitatively. The adhesion model involves two solid–liquid interfacial tensions (γsl> γsl′). Young’s equation with γslgives the advancing angle θawhile that with γsl′due to surface rearrangement yields the receding angle θr. Our analytical analysis indicates that contact line pinning represents frustration in surface free energy, and the equilibrium shape corresponds to a nondifferential minimum instead of a local minimum. On the basis of our thermodynamic model, Surface Evolver simulations are performed to reproduce both advancing and receding behavior associated with a captive bubble on the acrylic glass. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]