1. Wetting Behavior of Silicone Oils on Solid Substrates Immersed in Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions
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Clayton J. Radke, O. Theodoly, Tatiana F. Svitova, R. M. Hill, and S. Christiano
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inorganic chemicals ,Materials science ,Aqueous solution ,Aqueous medium ,technology, industry, and agriculture ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,Aqueous electrolyte ,Electrolyte ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Silicone oil ,Contact angle ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,Electrochemistry ,Zeta potential ,Organic chemistry ,General Materials Science ,Wetting ,Spectroscopy - Abstract
Equilibrium contact angles are reported for silicone oils (poly(dimethylsiloxane)s) on polymer-coated and uncoated solid-silicon substrates immersed in aqueous electrolyte solutions. Solid-substrate wettability to water ranges from highly hydrophilic to highly hydrophobic based on water/air contact angles. Although silicone oils in air spread completely on all of the studied substrates, these same surfaces when immersed in aqueous media exhibit finite contact angles against silicone oils that depend strongly on the substrate surface energy. A detailed investigation of the pH influence on the wetting behavior of silicone oil on the solid substrates is pursued where a clear correlation emerges between the changes of substrate-surface zeta potential (ζ) and the oil-wetting behavior on substrates immersed in aqueous solution. Also, the influence of inorganic KCl and CaCl2 electrolytes on the wetting behavior of silicone oils on solid substrates is studied. KCl does not produce a noticeable effect on the wetti...
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- 2002
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