Fall and rise of small droplets on rough hydrophobic substrates

Details Fall and rise of small droplets on rough hydrophobic substrates Fall and rise of small droplets on rough hydrophobic substrates

2009-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/0906.4122v3

EPL 88 (2009) 26002

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 6 figures, version as published in EPL

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/88/26002

Liquid droplets on patterned hydrophobic substrates are typically observed either in the Wenzel or the Cassie state. Here we show that for droplets of comparable size to the roughness scale an additional local equilibrium state exists, where the droplet is immersed in the texture, but not yet contacts the bottom grooves. Upon evaporation, a droplet in this state enters the Cassie state, leading to a qualitatively new self-cleaning mechanism. The effect is of generic character and is expected to occur in any hydrophobic capillary wetting situation where a spherical liquid reservoir is involved.

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