Water sprints uphill on glass

作者:Vorobyev A Y*; Guo Chunlei
来源:Journal of Applied Physics, 2010, 108(12): 123512.
DOI:10.1063/1.3511431

摘要

As a material, glass has been widely used in traditional fluidic devices and more recently in micro- and nanofluidic devices, and its wetting properties are crucially important in these applications. In this work, by using a high-intensity femtosecond laser structuring technique, we create a unique surface pattern on glass that transfer a regular glass surface to superwicking. As a result, water defies the gravity and sprints vertically uphill along the structured glass surface at an unprecedented velocity of 3.8 cm/sec. Our study shows that the dynamics of this fast self-propelled water flow follows a square root of time dependence.

  • 出版日期2010-12-15