Abstract
Industrial applications use surfactants to control surface tension and wettability of surfaces. Instead of studying prepared solutions, we focus on the movement of the contact line after adding the surfactant. We placed the pedant drop with surfactant to a sessile drop of pure water and filmed the spreading process to obtain friction coefficient of the contact line. Our results confirmed that adding surfactants to sessile droplets drives the contact line movement. Small concentrations of LHS and SDBS as well as high concentrations of SDBS pin droplet and increase the hysteresis. Friction coefficient for cationic CTAB and zwitterionic LHS drops with the concentration increase. Anionic SDBS decreases contact angle, making the surface more hydrophilic and intensifying hysteresis.
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