ArticleSoft matter2018
Wetting of soft superhydrophobic micropillar arrays.
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- Imparting scalephobicity with rational microtexturing of soft materials.Science advances · 2023Article
- Wrinkled Interfaces: Taking Advantage of Anisotropic Wrinkling to Periodically Pattern Polymer Surfaces.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Review
- Effectiveness of organic solvents for recovering collapsed PDMS micropillar arrays.RSC advances · 2023Article
- Droplet motion on a wrinkled PDMS surface with a gradient structural length scale shorter than the droplet diameter.RSC advances · 2022Article
- Surface textures suppress viscoelastic braking on soft substrates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Onset of Elasto-capillary Bundling of Micropillar Arrays: A Direct Visualization.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2020Article
- Underwater Superoleophobic Surface Based on Silica Hierarchical Cylinder Arrays with a Low Aspect Ratio.ACS nano · 2020Article
- Fabrication of a flexible transparent superomniphobic polydimethylsiloxane surface with a micropillar array.RSC advances · 2019Article
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Abstract
Superhydrophobic surfaces are usually assumed to be rigid so that liquids do not deform them. Here we analyze how the relation between microstructure and wetting changes when the surface is flexible. Therefore we deposited liquid drops on arrays of flexible micropillars. We imaged the drop's surface and the bending of micropillars with confocal microscopy and analyzed the deflection of micropillars while the contact line advanced and receded. The deflection is directly proportional to the horizontal component of the capillary force acting on that particular micropillar. In the Cassie or "fakir" state, drops advance by touching down on the next top faces of micropillars, much like on rigid arrays. In contrast, on the receding side the micropillars deform. The main force hindering the slide of a drop is due to pinning at the receding side, while the force on the advancing side is negligible. In the Wenzel state, micropillars were deflected in both receding and advancing states.
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