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Pham QN, Barako MT, Won Y. Grain Crystallinity, Anisotropy, and Boundaries Govern Microscale Hydrodynamic Transport in Semicrystalline Porous Media. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:39-51. [PMID: 38047529 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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Polycrystallinity is often an unintended consequence of real manufacturing processes used to produce designer porous media with deterministic and periodic architectures. Porous media are widely employed as high-surface conduits for fluid transport; unfortunately, even small concentrations of defects in the long-range order become the dominant impediment to hydrodynamic transport. In this study, we isolate the effects of these defects using a microfluidic analogy to energy transport in atomic polycrystals by directly tracking capillary transport through polycrystalline inverse opals. We reveal─using high-fidelity florescent microscopy─the boundary-limited nature of flow motions, along with nonlinear impedance elements introduced by the presence of "grain boundaries" that are separating the well-ordered "crystalline grains". Coupled crystallinity, anisotropy, and linear defect density contribute to direction-dominated flow characteristics in a discretized manner rather than traditional diffusive-like flow patterns. Separating individual crystal grains' transport properties from polycrystals along with new probabilistic data sets enables demonstrating statistical predictive models. These results provide fundamental insight into transport phenomena in (poly)crystalline porous media beyond the deterministic properties of an idealized unit cell and bridge the gap between engineering models and the ubiquitous imperfections found in manufactured porous materials.
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- Quang N Pham
- Materials and Manufacturing Technology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- NG Next Basic Research Laboratory, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Redondo Beach, California 90278, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Technology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
- Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Irvine 92697, United States
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Aizawa A, Banno T, Asakura K. Bifurcation and Transposition of the Wicking Front of Binary Solutions Infiltrating into Chromatography Paper Associated with Their Evaporation. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:16731-16739. [PMID: 37963320 PMCID: PMC10688430 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
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Nonequilibrium fluid patterns, such as Marangoni contraction, coffee rings, and tears of wine, are generated in binary solutions spread on a substrate during their evaporation. In this study, we observed another type of nonequilibrium behavior exhibited by binary solutions as they infiltrate porous materials and undergo evaporation. A binary solution comprising hexane and ethanol was brought into contact with the chromatography paper to facilitate infiltration into the paper's pores. Because the experimental setup was in an open environment, infiltration and evaporation occurred simultaneously. The wicking front exhibited an initial rapid advancement, followed by subsequent receding and readvancing. Additionally, the bifurcation of the wicking front after the onset of its readvancement was confirmed by monitoring the temporal evolution of the spatial luminance distribution and temperature distribution on the surface of the chromatography paper. Chromatographic development of a hydrophilic dye was conducted in this experimental setup in an open environment. Additionally, it was confirmed that the receding and readvancing of the wicking front represented the transposition of the bifurcated wicking fronts.
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- Amiko Aizawa
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty
of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1, Hiyoshi, Kohoku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty
of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1, Hiyoshi, Kohoku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty
of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1, Hiyoshi, Kohoku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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Helseth LE, Greve MM. Wetting of porous thin films exhibiting large contact angles. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:094701. [PMID: 36889938 DOI: 10.1063/5.0138148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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Porous solid films that promote large apparent contact angles are interesting systems since their wetting properties are dependent on both the surface structure and water penetration into the film. In this study, a parahydrophobic coating is made by sequential dip coating of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and stearic acid on polished copper substrates. The apparent contact angles are determined using the tilted plate method, and it is found that the liquid-vapor interaction decreases and water droplets are more likely to move off the film when the number of coated layers increases. Interestingly, it is found that under some conditions, the front contact angle can be smaller than the back contact angle. Scanning electron microscopy observations demonstrate that the coating process led to the formation of hydrophilic TiO2 nanoparticle domains and hydrophobic stearic acid flakes that allows heterogeneous wetting. By monitoring the electrical current through the water droplet to the copper substrate, it is found that the water drops penetrate the coating layer to make direct contact with the copper surface with a time delay and magnitude that depends on the coating thickness. This additional penetration of water into the porous film enhances the adhesion of the droplet to the film and provides a clue to understand the contact angle hysteresis.
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- L E Helseth
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 55, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 55, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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Pore-scale study of water salinity effect on thin-film stability for a moving oil droplet. J Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 569:366-377. [PMID: 32126349 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.02.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2019] [Revised: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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HYPOTHESES The interfacial dynamics in natural porous media are affected not only by the interplay between viscous and capillary forces but also the solid surface wettability. It has been hypothesized that the wettability alteration induced by changes in the water salinity is primarily caused by electric double-layer force expansion, which strongly affects the multiphase flow dynamics. SIMULATIONS We investigate the effect of water ionic composition and surface roughness on pore-scale wettability alteration. Multiphase hydrodynamics is numerically captured by a lubrication approximation describing the evolution of thin-films coupled with a multiscale level-set approach. An oil blob mobilized by water within a single pore is considered as a case study. The effect of brine ionic composition is accounted for by an electric double-layer through the water ionic strength and zeta-potential parameters. FINDINGS We demonstrate that high-salinity water thin-films collapse to an adsorbed nanometer layer, leading to a large pressure drop during mobilization of the blob induced by the attractive surface forces. However, low-salinity water thin-films are stable due to the repulsive electric double-layer forces, leading to less pressure drop during mobilization of the blob. The novelty of this work lies in efficiently capturing the nanoscale effects of the electric double-layer in pore-scale multiphase flow displacements. Our quantitative investigations provide fundamental insights into the efficiency of low-salinity waterflooding.
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Gimenez R, Soler-Illia GJAA, Berli CLA, Bellino MG. Nanopore-Enhanced Drop Evaporation: When Cooler or More Saline Water Droplets Evaporate Faster. ACS NANO 2020; 14:2702-2708. [PMID: 31927978 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b06618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The evaporation of water droplets on surfaces is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and has critical importance in a broad range of technical applications. Here, we show a substantial enhancement of liquid evaporation rate when droplets are on nanoporous thin film surfaces. We also reveal how this nanopore-enhanced evaporation leads to counterintuitive phenomena: cooler or more saline water droplets evaporate faster. We find indeed that, contrary to typical evaporation behavior of sessile droplets on nonporous surfaces, the droplets placed on nanoporous thin films evaporate more rapidly when salt concentration increases or when the temperature decreases. This peculiar droplet evaporation behavior is related to the key role of the steady wetted annulus that is self-generated into the nanopore network in the drop periphery, which leads to an effectively enhanced evaporation area that controls the overall evaporation process. Our results provide the prospect of conceiving fresh scenarios in the evaporation of drops on surfaces in both relevant applications and fundamental insights.
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- Rocio Gimenez
- Instituto de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología CNEA-CONICET, Av. Gral. Paz 1499, San Martín, Buenos Aires B1650, Argentina
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- Instituto de Nanosistemas, UNSAM-CONICET, Av. 25 de Mayo 1021, San Martín 1650, Argentina
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- INTEC (Universidad Nacional del Litoral-CONICET) Predio CCT CONICET Santa Fe, RN 168, 3000, Santa Fe 1704, Argentina
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- Instituto de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología CNEA-CONICET, Av. Gral. Paz 1499, San Martín, Buenos Aires B1650, Argentina
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Lee J, Suh Y, Dubey PP, Barako MT, Won Y. Capillary Wicking in Hierarchically Textured Copper Nanowire Arrays. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:1546-1554. [PMID: 30557501 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b14955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Capillary wicking through homogeneous porous media remains challenging to simultaneously optimize due to the unique transport phenomena that occur at different length scales. This challenge may be overcome by introducing hierarchical porous media, which combine tailored morphologies across multiple length scales to design for the individual transport mechanisms. Here, we fabricate hierarchical nanowire arrays consisting of vertically aligned copper nanowires (∼100 to 1000 nm length scale) decorated with dense copper oxide nanostructures (∼10 to 100 nm length scale) to create unique property sets that include a large specific surface area, high rates of fluid delivery, and the structural flexibility of vertical arrays. These hierarchical nanowire arrays possess enhanced capillary wicking ( K/ Reff = 0.004-0.023 μm) by utilizing hemispreading and are advantageous as evaporation surfaces. With the advent and acceleration of flexible electronics technologies, we measure the capillary properties of our freestanding hierarchical nanowire arrays installed on curved surfaces and observe comparable fluid delivery to flat arrays, showing the difference of 10-20%. The degree of effective inter-nanowire pore and porosity is shown to govern the capillary performance parameters, thereby this study provides the design strategy for capillary wicking materials with unique and tailored combinations of thermofluidic properties.
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- Jonggyu Lee
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , University of California, Irvine , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , University of California, Irvine , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , University of California, Irvine , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , University of California, Irvine , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
- NG Next, Northrop Grumman Corporation , Redondo Beach , California 90278 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , University of California, Irvine , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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Rong G, Palko JW, Oyarzun DI, Zhang C, Hämmerle J, Asheghi M, Goodson KE, Santiago JG. A method for quantifying in plane permeability of porous thin films. J Colloid Interface Sci 2018; 530:667-674. [PMID: 30007196 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.05.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Revised: 05/12/2018] [Accepted: 05/21/2018] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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The in-plane permeability of porous thin films is an important fluid mechanical property that determines wicking and pressure-driven flow behavior in such materials. This property has so far been challenging to measure directly due to the small sidewall cross-sectional area of thin films available for flow. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel technique for directly measuring in-plane permeability of porous thin films of arbitrary thicknesses, in situ, using a manifold pressed to the top surface of the film. We both measure and simulate the influence of the two dimensional flow field produced in a film by the manifold and extract the permeability from measurements of pressure drop at fixed flow rates. Permeability values measured using the technique for a periodic array of channels are comparable to theoretical predictions. We also determine in-plane permeability of arrays of pillars and electrodeposited porous copper films. This technique is a robust tool to characterize permeability of thin films of arbitrary thicknesses on a variety of substrates. In Supplementary material, we provide a solid model, which is useful in three-dimensional printer reproductions of our device.
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- Guoguang Rong
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Capillary Rise of Nanostructured Microwicks. MICROMACHINES 2018; 9:mi9040153. [PMID: 30424087 PMCID: PMC6187682 DOI: 10.3390/mi9040153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2018] [Revised: 03/21/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Capillarity refers to the driving force to propel liquid through small gaps in the absence of external forces, and hence enhanced capillary force has been pursued for various applications. In this study, flower like ZnO nanostructures are successfully deposited to enhance capillarity of microwick structures that are specially designed to augment boiling heat transfer performance. Microreactor-assisted nanomaterial deposition, MANDTM, is employed with a flow cell to deposit the ZnO nanostructures on a large sized microwick (4.3 cm × 10.7 cm) with dual-channel configuration. A capillary rise experiment based on the mass gain method is first performed using water and ethanol (EtOH) as the working liquids to demonstrate the enhanced capillary force induced by the ZnO nanostructure on the microwick structure. It is found that the coating of ZnO nanostructure effectively propels the working fluids through the nano- or micro pores created from the ZnO nanostructure and consequently improves the capillary force. In order to investigate the wicking mechanism of the ZnO coated microwick structure, the capillary rise result based on height measurement was compared with analytical models. It is found that the gravity effect and viscous force play an important role in wicking rise of the coated wick structure. This study aims at demonstrating the capability of the integrated MAND process with a flow cell for producing a large scaled nanostructured surface, which eventually has a great potential for enhanced boiling heat transfer.
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Mesoporous metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors detect intra-porous fluid changes. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.04.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mercuri M, Pierpauli K, Bellino MG, Berli CLA. Complex Filling Dynamics in Mesoporous Thin Films. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:152-157. [PMID: 27959560 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The fluid-front dynamics resulting from the coexisting infiltration and evaporation phenomena in nanofluidic systems has been investigated. More precisely, water infiltration in both titania and silica mesoporous films was studied through a simple experiment: a sessile drop was deposited over the film and the advancement of the fluid front into the porous structure was optically followed and recorded in time. In the case of titania mesoporous films, capillary infiltration was arrested at a given distance, and a steady annular region of the wetted material was formed. A simple model that combines Lucas-Washburn infiltration and surface evaporation was derived, which appropriately describes the observed filling dynamics and the annulus width in dissimilar mesoporous morphologies. In the case of wormlike mesoporous morphologies, a remarkable phenomenon was found: instead of reaching a steady infiltration-evaporation balance, the fluid front exhibits an oscillating behavior. This complex filling dynamics opens interesting possibilities to study the unusual nanofluidic phenomena and to discover novel applications.
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- Magalí Mercuri
- Departamento de Micro y Nanotecnología, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica , Avenida General Paz 1499, San Martín, B1650 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Micro y Nanotecnología, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica , Avenida General Paz 1499, San Martín, B1650 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Micro y Nanotecnología, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica , Avenida General Paz 1499, San Martín, B1650 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- INTEC (Universidad Nacional del Litoral-CONICET) Predio CCT CONICET Santa Fe , RN 168, S3000 Santa Fe, Argentina
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Flow control in paper-based microfluidic device for automatic multistep assays: A focused minireview. KOREAN J CHEM ENG 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s11814-016-0161-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Ravi S, Dharmarajan R, Moghaddam S. Measurement of Capillary Radius and Contact Angle within Porous Media. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:12954-9. [PMID: 26538412 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The pore radius (i.e., capillary radius) and contact angle determine the capillary pressure generated in a porous medium. The most common method to determine these two parameters is through measurement of the capillary pressure generated by a reference liquid (i.e., a liquid with near-zero contact angle) and a test liquid. The rate of rise technique, commonly used to determine the capillary pressure, results in significant uncertainties. In this study, we utilize a recently developed technique for independently measuring the capillary pressure and permeability to determine the equivalent minimum capillary radii and contact angle of water within micropillar wick structures. In this method, the experimentally measured dryout threshold of a wick structure at different wicking lengths is fit to Darcy's law to extract the maximum capillary pressure generated by the test liquid. The equivalent minimum capillary radii of different wick geometries are determined by measuring the maximum capillary pressures generated using n-hexane as the working fluid. It is found that the equivalent minimum capillary radius is dependent on the diameter of pillars and the spacing between pillars. The equivalent capillary radii of micropillar wicks determined using the new method are found to be up to 7 times greater than the current geometry-based first-order estimates. The contact angle subtended by water at the walls of the micropillars is determined by measuring the capillary pressure generated by water within the arrays and the measured capillary radii for the different geometries. This mean contact angle of water is determined to be 54.7°.
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- Saitej Ravi
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States
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Vincent O, Sessoms DA, Huber EJ, Guioth J, Stroock AD. Drying by cavitation and poroelastic relaxations in porous media with macroscopic pores connected by nanoscale throats. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 113:134501. [PMID: 25302891 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.134501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We investigate the drying dynamics of porous media with two pore diameters separated by several orders of magnitude. Nanometer-sized pores at the edge of our samples prevent air entry, while drying proceeds by heterogeneous nucleation of vapor bubbles--cavitation--in the liquid in micrometer-sized voids within the sample. We show that the dynamics of cavitation and drying are set by the interplay of the deterministic poroelastic mass transport in the porous medium and the stochastic nucleation process. Spatiotemporal patterns emerge in this unusual reaction-diffusion system, with temporal oscillations in the drying rate and variable roughness of the drying front.
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- Olivier Vincent
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA and Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Jahanshahi-Anbuhi S, Henry A, Leung V, Sicard C, Pennings K, Pelton R, Brennan JD, Filipe CDM. Paper-based microfluidics with an erodible polymeric bridge giving controlled release and timed flow shutoff. LAB ON A CHIP 2014; 14:229-36. [PMID: 24195917 DOI: 10.1039/c3lc50762a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Water soluble pullulan films were formatted into paper-based microfluidic devices, serving as a controlled time shutoff valve. The utility of the valve was demonstrated by a one-step, fully automatic implementation of a complex pesticide assay requiring timed, sequential exposure of an immobilized enzyme layer to separate liquid streams. Pullulan film dissolution and the capillary wicking of aqueous solutions through the device were measured and modeled providing valve design criteria. The films dissolve mainly by surface erosion, meaning the film thickness mainly controls the shutoff time. This method can also provide time-dependent sequential release of reagents without compromising the simplicity and low cost of paper-based devices.
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- Sana Jahanshahi-Anbuhi
- Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada.
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Milne AJB, Amirfazli A. The Cassie equation: how it is meant to be used. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2012; 170:48-55. [PMID: 22257682 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2011.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2011] [Revised: 12/06/2011] [Accepted: 12/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A review of literature shows that the majority of papers cite a potentially incorrect form of the Cassie and Cassie-Baxter equations to interpret or predict contact angle data. We show that for surfaces wet with a composite interface, the commonly used form of the Cassie-Baxter equation, cosθ(c)=f(1)cosθ-(1-f), is only correct for the case of flat topped pillar geometry without any penetration of the liquid. In general, the original form of the Cassie-Baxter equation, cosθ(c)=f(1)cosθ(1)-f(2), with f(1)+f(2)≥1, should be used. The differences between the two equations are discussed and the errors involved in using the incorrect equation are estimated to be between ~3° and 13° for superhydrophobic surfaces. The discrepancies between the two equations are also discussed for the case of a liquid undergoing partial, but increasing, levels of penetration. Finally, a general equation is presented for the transition/stability criterion between the Cassie-Baxter and Wenzel modes of wetting.
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- A J B Milne
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G8
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