ArticleNPJ microgravity2017
The measurement of the surface energy of solids using a laboratory drop tower.
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- An Empirical Method for Surface Energy Anisotropy Determination in High Symmetry Crystals.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Solid-Liquid Interfacial Free Energy from Computer Simulations: Challenges and Recent Advances.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Effect of gravity on the spreading of a droplet deposited by liquid needle deposition technique.NPJ microgravity · 2023Article
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- Layer-By-Layer Self-Assembled Dip Coating for Antifouling Functionalized Finishing of Cotton Textile.Polymers · 2022Article
- Approaches to modelling the shape of nanocrystals.Nano convergence · 2021Review
- Solid-state membranes formed on natural menisci.Nanotechnology · 2020Article
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Abstract
This work presents a technique for the study and measurement of the interfacial energies of solid-liquid-gas systems. The instrument and the evaluation method for the measurements obtained by it, allow the analysis of the energy changes of sessile drops submitted to microgravity. A mathematical model based on the thermodynamic of wetting is applied to evaluate the interfacial energies as a function of the drop shape changes due to the effect of the release of gravitation during the experiment. The presented model bases on the thermodynamic equilibrium of the interfaces and not on the balance of bi-dimensional tensors on the contour line. For this reason, the model does not follow Young's equation as the current surface wetting characterization techniques usually do.
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