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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Slip-mediated dewetting of polymer microdroplets.

Joshua D McGraw, Tak Shing Chan, Simon Maurer, Thomas Salez, Michael Benzaquen, Elie Raphaël, Martin Brinkmann, Karin Jacobs

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Near-critical spreading of droplets.Nature communications · 2022
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8 authors.

Joshua D McGrawSoft Matter Physics Group, Experimental Physics, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany; Département de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure/Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Research University, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France; joshua.mcgraw@phys.ens.fr.
Tak Shing ChanFluid Interfaces Group, Experimental Physics, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany; Department of Complex Fluids, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany;
Simon MaurerSoft Matter Physics Group, Experimental Physics, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany;
Thomas SalezLaboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, UMR Gulliver 7083, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles ParisTech/PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France;
Michael BenzaquenLaboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, UMR Gulliver 7083, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles ParisTech/PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France;
Elie RaphaëlLaboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, UMR Gulliver 7083, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles ParisTech/PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France;
Martin BrinkmannFluid Interfaces Group, Experimental Physics, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany; Department of Complex Fluids, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany;
Karin JacobsSoft Matter Physics Group, Experimental Physics, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany; Leibniz-Institute for New Materials, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Classical hydrodynamic models predict that infinite work is required to move a three-phase contact line, defined here as the line where a liquid/vapor interface intersects a solid surface. Assuming a slip boundary condition, in which the liquid slides against the solid, such an unphysical prediction is avoided. In this article, we present the results of experiments in which a contact line moves and where slip is a dominating and controllable factor. Spherical cap-shaped polystyrene microdroplets, with nonequilibrium contact angle, are placed on solid self-assembled monolayer coatings from which they dewet. The relaxation is monitored using in situ atomic force microscopy. We find that slip has a strong influence on the droplet evolutions, both on the transient nonspherical shapes and contact line dynamics. The observations are in agreement with scaling analysis and boundary element numerical integration of the governing Stokes equations, including a Navier slip boundary condition.

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contact line motionfree-surface flowsmicroflowsnanoflowsslip

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PMID26787903
PMCPMC4747728

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