Evaporation-induced failure of hydrophobicity

作者：Hao Luo, Taishan Liu, Junwu Ma, P. Wang, Y. Wang, Yamin Leprince‐Wang, Guangyin Jing · 发表于：Physical Review Fluids · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.1103/physrevfluids.1.053901 · 被引用次数：9 · 研究领域：Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity、Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies、Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics

A new study shows that a moving contact line could be more dangerous for a hydrophobic coating layer on a surface than lamellar flow. The tiny water drops generate a driving force that removes the coating molecules, collecting and depositing them on the substrate as the contact line recedes.