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Microscopic liquid–gas interface effect on liquid wetting
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Journal of colloid and interface science, 2023-01, Vol.630, p.813-822
Ort / Verlag
Elsevier Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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Young contact angle is widely applied to evaluate liquid wetting phenomena on solid surfaces. For example, it gives a truncated-spherical shape prediction of a droplet profile through the Young-Laplace equation. However, recent measurements have shown deviations between microscopic droplet profiles and the spherical shape, indicating that the conventional Young contact angle is insufficient to describe microscopic wetting phenomena. In this work, we hypothesize that a liquid–gas interface nano-bending, which is caused by the nonlinear coupling between the effects of the microscopic interface geometry and solid–liquid interactions, is responsible for this deviation.
Using molecular dynamics simulations and mathematical modeling, we reveal the structure of the nano-bending and the mechanism of the nonlinear-coupled effect. We further apply our findings to illustrate a liquid microlayer with the saddle-shaped profile in nucleate boiling.
The nonlinear-coupled effect is responsible for the deviation of a nano-droplet profile and also the very thin microlayer captured by different experiments. The saddle-shaped interface significantly highlights the nonlinear-coupled effect. The interface nano-bending, rather than the Young contact angle, acts as the boundary condition and dictates the liquid wetting system, especially for the case with high interface curvature. These findings provide insight into recent nano-scale droplet- and bubble-related wetting phenomena.