Deformation of Surface Nanobubbles Induced by Substrate Hydrophobicity

Superstability of surface nanobubbles.

Shock wave induced cavitation experiments and atomic force microscopy measurements of flat polyamide and hydrophobized silicon surfaces immersed in water are performed. It is shown that surface nanobubbles, present on these surfaces, do not act as nucleation sites for cavitation bubbles, in contrast to the expectation. This implies that surface nanobubbles are not just stable under ambient cond...

Leakiness of Pinned Neighboring Surface Nanobubbles Induced by Strong Gas–Surface Interaction

The stability of two neighboring surface nanobubbles on a chemically heterogeneous surface is studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of binary mixtures consisting of Lennard-Jones (LJ) particles. A diffusion equation-based stability analysis suggests that two nanobubbles sitting next to each other remain stable, provided the contact line is pinned, and that their radii of curvature are ...

Surface nanobubbles and micropancakes.

Solvent-induced crystallization of a polycarbonate surface and texture copying by polydimethylsiloxane for improved surface hydrophobicity

The influence of the immersion period on the crystallization of polycarbonate (PC) was investigated, and the resulting texture configurations of the crystal structures were reconstructed with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Analytical tools, including optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, X-ray diffraction, the sessile drop technique, Fourier transform infrared...

Enhanced surface hydrophobicity by coupling of surface polarity and topography.

We use atomistic computer simulation to explore the relationship between mesoscopic (liquid drop contact angle) and microscopic (surface atomic polarity) characteristics for water in contact with a model solid surface based on the structure of silica. We vary both the magnitude and direction of the solid surface polarity at the atomic scale and characterize the response of an aqueous interface ...