Wetting of Real Surfaces

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-025853-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: De Gruyter Studies in Mathematical Physics

The revealing of the phenomenon of superhydrophobicity (the "lotus-effect") has stimulated an interest in wetting of real (rough and chemically heterogeneous) surfaces. In spite of the fact that wetting has been exposed to intensive research for more than 200 years, there still is a broad field open for theoretical and experimental research, including recently revealed superhydrophobic, superoleophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces, so-called liquid marbles, wetting transitions, etc. This book integrates all these aspects within a general framework of wetting of real surfaces, where physical and chemical heterogeneity is essential. Wetting of rough/heterogeneous surfaces is discussed through the use of the variational approach developed recently by the author. It allows natural and elegant grounding of main equations describing wetting of solid surfaces, i.e. Young, Wenzel and Cassie-Baxter equations. The problems of superhydrophobicity, wetting transitions and contact angle hysteresis are discussed in much detail, in view of novel models and new experimental data.

Zielgruppe

Theoretical Physicists, Materials Scientists, Theoretical Chemists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bormashenko, Edward Yu.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Technologie der Oberflächenbeschichtung
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Oberflächen- und Grenzflächenphysik, Dünne Schichten
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Chemische Verfahrenstechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie Quantenchemie, Theoretische Chemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Preface
Notation
Contents
Chapter 1: What is surface tension?
Chapter 2: Wetting of ideal surfaces
Chapter 3: Contact angle hysteresis
Chapter 4: Dynamics of wetting
Chapter 5: Wetting of rough and chemically heterogeneous surfaces: the Wenzel and Cassie models
Chapter 6: Superhydrophobicity, superhydrophilicity, and the rose petal effect
Chapter 7: Wetting transitions on rough surfaces
Chapter 8: Electrowetting and wetting in the presence of external fields
Chapter 9: Nonstick droplets
Index

Über Autor(innen)

E. Bormashenko, Ariel University Center of Samaria.