Abstract
The drop size dependence of the advancing contact angle of dodecane and ethylene glycol on carefully prepared FC-721, Zonyl FSC and DDOA surfaces has been studied by means of axisymmetric drop shape analysis. The contact angles were measured in air and were found to decrease by 3 to 5 degrees as the radius of the three-phase contact line increased from approximately 1 to 5 mm. This phenomenon is interpreted in terms of line tension by the modified Young equation. Our experimental results show that the line tensions are positive and of the order of 1 μJ m −1 for all the three solid-liquid systems in our study; these results are consistent with previous work in our laboratory. The occasionally observed phenomenon that contact angles increase as the radius of the three-phase contact line increased on less carefully prepared surfaces is ascribed to the corrugation of the three phase contact line.
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