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The effect of temperature on contact angles and wetting transitions for n -alkanes on PTFE
- Source :
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 503:159-167
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to present a method for predicting the effect of temperature on contact angles and wetting transitions for n-alkanes on PTFE. The analysis is based on the effect of temperature on two closely related phenomena, which are critical in the determination of contact angles: intermolecular forces and the thickness of an adsorbed film in the region adjacent to the three-phase contact. Considering solely van der Waals forces, it is possible to reproduce the experimental temperature dependence of contact angles. At low temperature values, contact angles show a small and linear decrease with temperature. For higher temperature values, substantially larger decreases are exhibited by the more volatile alkanes. In the case of n-octane, a single transition from partial to total wetting is found at 443K. This transition, which arises from the vanishing of the effective Hamaker constant at 430K, is characterized by a surface specific heat exponent close to one, indicating the existence of a first order wetting transition. For the less volatile alkanes, the contact angle decrease is progressively less pronounced as the volatility decreases in such a way that for n-hexadecane the contact angle remains approximately constant throughout the temperature range under study.
- Subjects :
- Chemistry
Hamaker constant
Intermolecular force
Thermodynamics
Nanotechnology
02 engineering and technology
Atmospheric temperature range
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Biomaterials
Contact angle
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Colloid and Surface Chemistry
020401 chemical engineering
Wetting transition
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Wetting
0204 chemical engineering
van der Waals force
0210 nano-technology
Volatility (chemistry)
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00219797
- Volume :
- 503
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1d6f6bfc93f9a48e2f233aa191182f87