Through-drop imaging of moving contact lines and contact areas on opaque water-repellent surfaces
Open Access
- 27 February 2023
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Soft Matter
- Vol. 19 (13) , 2350-2359
Abstract
The progressing wetting interface on opaque hydrophobic surfaces is observed and quantified using a transparent droplet probe and contact angles near 180° are measured with an uncertainty as low as 0.2°.Keywords
Funding Information
- Research Council of Finland (341459)
- Research Council of Finland (342169)
- Research Council of Finland (346109)
- Research Council of Finland (331149)
- H2020 European Research Council (725513)
- Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (2022A1515110400)
- Department of Education of Guangdong Province (2022KQNCX043)
- Zhanjiang Science and Technology Bureau (2022E05005)
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