Contact Angle of Water on Polymer Surfaces
Contact Angle of Water on Polymer Surfaces
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DOI:
10.1021/la00019a068
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发表时间:
1994-07
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影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
T. Yasuda;T. Okuno;H. Yasuda
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作者:
T. Yasuda;T. Okuno;H. Yasuda
Sessile droplet (advancing and receding) contact angles of water on surfaces of gelatin gel (15% solid), agar gel (2% solid), and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) film were investigated at 20 C. The advancing contact angle of water increases with the postcoagulation time of the gels and reaches a stationary value (the equilibrium contact angle) in approximately 1 h. Thevalue of the advancing contact angle of water is around 75 and 25 for the gelatin gel andthe agar gel, respectively, and 100 for PTFE. The advancing contact angle is dependent on the relativehumidity of air, andthe lower the relative humidity, the higher is the contact angle. The gelatin gel shows a pronounced hysteresis of contact angle (discrepancy between advancing and receding contact angles), while the agar gel shows very little difference between the advancing and receding contact angles, partly due to the low advancing angle. Advancing and receding contact angles are nearly identical for the PTFEsurface, and also the surface area under the droplet in the advancing and receding processes are identical. With gelatin hydrogels, the contact area does not decrease according to the decrease of drop volume during the receding process (merely flattens down the profileof the sessile droplet), whereas the contact area with the agargel decreases with a slight hysteresis effect. The hysteresis effect observed with a polymeric film by thesessile droplet contact angle measurement is largely attributable to the creation of an attractive force between the water and polymer molecules, which results from the change of the surface configuration to establish a new equilibrium between liquid water and the surface state of the contacting polymer solid.