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Data from the literature suggest that the rebound of a drop from a surface can be achieved when the wettability is low, i.e., when contact angles, measured at the triple line (solid-liquid-air), are high. However, no clear criterion exists to predict when a drop will rebound from a surface and which is the key wetting parameter to govern drop rebound (e.g., the %26quot;equilibrium%26quot; contact angle, theta(eq), the advancing and the receding contact angles, theta(A) and theta(R), respectively, the contact angle hysteresis, Delta theta, or any combination of these parameters). To clarify the conditions for drop rebound, we conducted experimental tests on different dry solid surfaces with variable wettability, from hydrophobic to superhydrophobic surfaces, with advancing contact angles 108 degrees %26lt; theta(A) %26lt; 169 degrees and receding contact angles 89 degrees %26lt; theta(R) %26lt; 161 degrees. It was found that the receding contact angle is the key wetting parameter that influences drop rebound, along with surface hydrophobicity: for the investigated impact conditions (drop diameter 2.4 %26lt; D-0 %26lt; 2.6 mm, impact speed 0.8 %26lt; V %26lt; 4.1 m/s, Weber number 25 %26lt; We %26lt; 585), rebound was observed only on surfaces with receding contact angles higher than 100 degrees. Also, the drop rebound time decreased by increasing the receding contact angle. It was also shown that in general care must be taken when using statically defined wetting parameters (such as advancing and receding contact angles) to predict the dynamic behavior of a liquid on a solid surface because the dynamics of the phenomenon may affect surface wetting close to the impact point (e.g., as a result of the transition from the Cassie Baxter to Wenzel state in the case of the so-called superhydrophobic surfaces) and thus affect the drop rebound.
- 出版日期2013-12-31
