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Title: Controllable underwater anisotropic oil-wetting

Abstract

This Letter demonstrates a simple method to achieve underwater anisotropic oil-wetting using silicon surfaces with a microgroove array produced by femtosecond laser ablation. The oil contact angles along the direction perpendicular to the grooves are consistently larger than those parallel to the microgroove arrays in water because the oil droplet is restricted by the energy barrier that exists between the non-irradiated domain and the trapped water in the laser-ablated microgrooves. This underwater anisotropic oil-wetting is able to be controlled, and the anisotropy can be tuned from 0° to ∼20° by adjusting the period of the microgroove arrays.

Authors:
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  1. State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering and Key Laboratory of Photonics Technology for Information of Shaanxi Province, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049 (China)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22310870
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 105; Journal Issue: 7; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ABLATION; ANISOTROPY; DROPLETS; IRRADIATION; LASER RADIATION; OILS; SILICON; SURFACES; TRAPPING; UNDERWATER; WATER

Citation Formats

Yong, Jiale, Chen, Feng, Yang, Qing, Farooq, Umar, Bian, Hao, Du, Guangqing, and Hou, Xun. Controllable underwater anisotropic oil-wetting. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4893945.
Yong, Jiale, Chen, Feng, Yang, Qing, Farooq, Umar, Bian, Hao, Du, Guangqing, & Hou, Xun. Controllable underwater anisotropic oil-wetting. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4893945
Yong, Jiale, Chen, Feng, Yang, Qing, Farooq, Umar, Bian, Hao, Du, Guangqing, and Hou, Xun. 2014. "Controllable underwater anisotropic oil-wetting". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4893945.
@article{osti_22310870,
title = {Controllable underwater anisotropic oil-wetting},
author = {Yong, Jiale and Chen, Feng and Yang, Qing and Farooq, Umar and Bian, Hao and Du, Guangqing and Hou, Xun},
abstractNote = {This Letter demonstrates a simple method to achieve underwater anisotropic oil-wetting using silicon surfaces with a microgroove array produced by femtosecond laser ablation. The oil contact angles along the direction perpendicular to the grooves are consistently larger than those parallel to the microgroove arrays in water because the oil droplet is restricted by the energy barrier that exists between the non-irradiated domain and the trapped water in the laser-ablated microgrooves. This underwater anisotropic oil-wetting is able to be controlled, and the anisotropy can be tuned from 0° to ∼20° by adjusting the period of the microgroove arrays.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4893945},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22310870}, journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
issn = {0003-6951},
number = 7,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}