Pendant bubble method for an accurate characterization of superhydrophobic surfaces

© 2011 American Chemical Society

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 27(2011), 23 vom: 06. Dez., Seite 13978-82
1. Verfasser: Ling, William Yeong Liang (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Ng, Tuck Wah, Neild, Adrian
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2011
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:© 2011 American Chemical Society
The commonly used sessile drop method for measuring contact angles and surface tension suffers from errors on superhydrophobic surfaces. This occurs from unavoidable experimental error in determining the vertical location of the liquid-solid-vapor interface due to a camera's finite pixel resolution, thereby necessitating the development and application of subpixel algorithms. We demonstrate here the advantage of a pendant bubble in decreasing the resulting error prior to the application of additional algorithms. For sessile drops to attain an equivalent accuracy, the pixel count would have to be increased by 2 orders of magnitude
Beschreibung:Date Completed 27.03.2012
Date Revised 29.11.2011
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1520-5827
DOI:10.1021/la203247q