Low-temperature Leidenfrost-like jumping of sessile droplets on microstructured surfaces

Huang, Wenge; Zhao, Lei; He, Xukun; Li, Yang; Collier, Charles Patrick; Zheng, Zheng; Liu, Jiansheng; Briggs, Dayrl P.; Cheng, Jiangtao

doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02522-z

Low-temperature Leidenfrost-like jumping of sessile droplets on microstructured surfaces

Journal Article · Fri May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2024 · Nature Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02522-z· OSTI ID:2439871

Huang, Wenge ^[1]; ^[2]; He, Xukun ^[1]; Li, Yang ^[1]; ^[3]; ^[4]; ^[4]; ^[3]; ^[1]

Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
Dalian Univ. of Technology (China)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
Beihang University (China)

The Leidenfrost effect—the levitation and hovering of liquid droplets on hot solid surfaces—generally requires a sufficiently high substrate temperature to activate liquid vaporization. Here, in this paper, we report the modulation of Leidenfrost-like jumping of sessile water microdroplets on micropillared surfaces at a relatively low temperature. Compared to traditional Leidenfrost effect occurring above 230 °C, the fin-array-like micropillars enable water microdroplets to levitate and jump off the surface within milliseconds at a temperature of 130 °C by triggering the inertia-controlled growth of individual vapour bubbles at the droplet base. We demonstrate that droplet jumping, resulting from momentum interactions between the expanding vapour bubble and the droplet, can be modulated by tailoring of the thermal boundary layer thickness through pillar height. This enables regulation of the bubble expansion between the inertia-controlled mode and the heat-transfer-limited mode. The two bubble-growth modes give rise to distinct droplet jumping behaviours characterized by constant velocity and constant energy regimes, respectively. This heating strategy allows the straightforward purging of wetting liquid droplets on rough or structured surfaces in a controlled manner, with potential applications including the rapid removal of fouling media, even when located in surface cavities.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 2439871

Journal Information:: Nature Physics, Journal Name: Nature Physics Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 20; ISSN 1745-2473

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group (NPG)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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