Fluid separation and network deformation in wetting of soft and swollen surfaces

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作者
Cai, Zhuoyun [1 ]
Skabeev, Artem [2 ]
Morozova, Svetlana [3 ]
Pham, Jonathan T. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Kentucky, Dept Chem & Mat Engn, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[2] Friedrich Schiller Univ Jena, Inst Organ Chem & Macromol Chem, Jena, Germany
[3] Case Western Reserve Univ, Dept Macromol Sci & Engn, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
INTERACTION PARAMETER; INTERFACIAL-TENSION; DROPLETS; DYNAMICS; ADHESION; BEHAVIOR; CHAINS; DROPS; CHI;
D O I
10.1038/s43246-021-00125-2
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Controlling the wetting of soft materials is of great importance in biological and engineering applications, but its understanding remains incomplete. Here, the wetting ridge of a water drop on a soft polymer network, swollen by a fluid, is studied with increasing degrees of swelling, revealing a growing fluid separation from the network. When a water drop is placed onto a soft polymer network, a wetting ridge develops at the drop periphery. The height of this wetting ridge is typically governed by the drop surface tension balanced by elastic restoring forces of the polymer network. However, the situation is more complex when the network is swollen with fluid, because the fluid may separate from the network at the contact line. Here we study the fluid separation and network deformation at the contact line of a soft polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) network, swollen with silicone oil. By controlling both the degrees of crosslinking and swelling, we find that more fluid separates from the network with increasing swelling. Above a certain swelling, network deformation decreases while fluid separation increases, demonstrating synergy between network deformation and fluid separation. When the PDMS network is swollen with a fluid having a negative spreading parameter, such as hexadecane, no fluid separation is observed. A simple balance of interfacial, elastic, and mixing energies can describe this fluid separation behavior. Our results reveal that a swelling fluid, commonly found in soft networks, plays a critical role in a wetting ridge.
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