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Evaporation dynamics of a sessile droplet on glass surfaces with fluoropolymer coatings : Focusing on the final stage of thin droplet evaporation. / Gatapova, Elizaveta Ya; Shonina, Anna M.; Safonov, Alexey I. et al.
In: Soft Matter, Vol. 14, No. 10, 01.01.2018, p. 1811-1821.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Evaporation dynamics of a sessile droplet on glass surfaces with fluoropolymer coatings
T2 - Focusing on the final stage of thin droplet evaporation
AU - Gatapova, Elizaveta Ya
AU - Shonina, Anna M.
AU - Safonov, Alexey I.
AU - Sulyaeva, Veronica S.
AU - Kabov, Oleg A.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - The evaporation dynamics of a water droplet with an initial volume of 2 μl from glass surfaces with fluoropolymer coatings are investigated using the shadow technique and an optical microscope. The droplet profile for a contact angle of less than 5° is constructed using an image-analyzing interference technique, and evaporation dynamics are investigated at the final stage. We coated the glass slides with a thin film of a fluoropolymer by the hot-wire chemical vapor deposition method at different deposition modes depending on the deposition pressure and the temperature of the activating wire. The resulting surfaces have different structures affecting the wetting properties. Droplet evaporation from a constant contact radius mode in the early stage of evaporation was found followed by the mode where both contact angle and contact radius simultaneously vary in time (final stage) regardless of wettability of the coated surfaces. We found that depinning occurs at small contact angles of 2.2-4.7° for all samples, which are smaller than the measured receding contact angles. This is explained by imbibition of the liquid into the developed surface of the "soft" coating that leads to formation of thin droplets completely wetting the surface. The final stage, which is little discussed in the literature, is also recorded. We have singled out a substage where the contact line velocity is abruptly increasing for all coated and uncoated surfaces. The critical droplet height corresponding to the transition to this substage is about 2 μm with R/h = 107. The duration of this substage is the same for all coated and uncoated surfaces. Droplets observed at this substage for all the tested surfaces are axisymmetric. The specific evaporation rate clearly demonstrates an abrupt increase at the final substage of the droplet evaporation. The classical R2 law is justified for the complete wetting situation where the droplet is disappearing in an axisymmetric manner.
AB - The evaporation dynamics of a water droplet with an initial volume of 2 μl from glass surfaces with fluoropolymer coatings are investigated using the shadow technique and an optical microscope. The droplet profile for a contact angle of less than 5° is constructed using an image-analyzing interference technique, and evaporation dynamics are investigated at the final stage. We coated the glass slides with a thin film of a fluoropolymer by the hot-wire chemical vapor deposition method at different deposition modes depending on the deposition pressure and the temperature of the activating wire. The resulting surfaces have different structures affecting the wetting properties. Droplet evaporation from a constant contact radius mode in the early stage of evaporation was found followed by the mode where both contact angle and contact radius simultaneously vary in time (final stage) regardless of wettability of the coated surfaces. We found that depinning occurs at small contact angles of 2.2-4.7° for all samples, which are smaller than the measured receding contact angles. This is explained by imbibition of the liquid into the developed surface of the "soft" coating that leads to formation of thin droplets completely wetting the surface. The final stage, which is little discussed in the literature, is also recorded. We have singled out a substage where the contact line velocity is abruptly increasing for all coated and uncoated surfaces. The critical droplet height corresponding to the transition to this substage is about 2 μm with R/h = 107. The duration of this substage is the same for all coated and uncoated surfaces. Droplets observed at this substage for all the tested surfaces are axisymmetric. The specific evaporation rate clearly demonstrates an abrupt increase at the final substage of the droplet evaporation. The classical R2 law is justified for the complete wetting situation where the droplet is disappearing in an axisymmetric manner.
KW - CONTACT LINE REGION
KW - LIQUID DROPLETS
KW - WATER
KW - ANGLE
KW - IMBIBITION
KW - FLUID
KW - CAPILLARITY
KW - WETTABILITY
KW - TRANSITION
KW - PRESSURE
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85043402362&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1039/c7sm02192e
DO - 10.1039/c7sm02192e
M3 - Article
C2 - 29442108
AN - SCOPUS:85043402362
VL - 14
SP - 1811
EP - 1821
JO - Soft Matter
JF - Soft Matter
SN - 1744-683X
IS - 10
ER -
ID: 10421668