Experimental Computation Process of the Surface Energy of Leaves by Acquiring Drop Image Information
Experimental Computation Process of the Surface Energy of Leaves by Acquiring Drop Image Information
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通过获取水滴图像信息计算叶片表面能的实验过程
DOI:
10.1166/jno.2012.1251
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发表时间:
2012-03-01
影响因子:
0.6
通讯作者:
Hu Yuxia
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作者:
Lu, Jun;Zhang, Hongtao;Hu Yuxia
Wettability is an important interface characteristic of plant leaves. It is used to describe what happened when an adhesive contacted with a leaf surface. The surface free energy is an important parameter that can be used to estimate the cohesion work (cohesive strength) between the liquid drop and plant leaves. In this paper, the sessile drop method was employed in this study to measure the static contact angel of Alkyl Polyglucoside (APG) on cucumber leaves. On basis of which, the solid surface free energy of cucumber leaves was calculated by the mathematic model. From these measurements, the surface free energy of cucumber leaves was estimated by the Zisman method, too. The surface free energy results of the sessile method for the different leaves were similar to the results measured by contact angle method, giving credence to applicability of this method for evaluating different types of leaves.