The adhesive characteristics of thin films (0.2-2 μm) of linear poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) liquids with a wide range of molecular weights have been measured using an atomic force microscope with a colloid probe (diameters 5 and 12 μm) for different separation velocities. The data were consistent with a residual film in the contact region having a thickness of ∼6 nm following an extended dwel...

Drying simulations of nanoparticle suspension films on a substrate are carried out by a threedimensional simulator developed. The motion of nanoparticles in the suspension films is modeled by Langevin equation, in which forces exerted on each nanoparticle consist of contact force, capillary force, Brownian force, van der Waals force, electrostatic force and fluid drag force. The drying of suspe...

The tribological properties of two distinctive alkanethiol SAMs, 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHA) and 1-octadecanethiol (ODT), on gold substrates in various humidity conditions were examined by lateral force microscopy (LFM). The results suggest that hydrophobic ODT SAM is insensitive to humidity. The difference of lateral force signal is within ±10% regardless of humidity. The lateral force ...

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study capillary liquid bridges between two planar substrates and the origin, strength and range of the resulting force between them. Pairwise interactions are described by the Lennard-Jones potential. Surface wettability is tuned by varying the fluid-substrate well depth interaction parameter. The force between the substrates due to a bridge of liquid ...

We use the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to manipulate single weakly bound nanometer-sized sheets on a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surface through artificially increasing the tip and sample interaction by pretreatment of the surface using a liquid thiol molecule. By this means it is possible to tear apart a graphite sheet against a step and fold this part onto the H...

We have developed an optofluidic device that improves the sensitivity of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) when compared to other SERS approaches. This device has a pinched and step microchannel-nanochannel junction that can trap and assemble nanoparticles/target molecules into optically enhanced SERS active clusters by using capillary force. These SERS active clusters provide an elect...

In article number 2002005, Hyung Jin Kim, Deok-Ho and co-workers describe a facile method for enhancing the pattern fidelity of Nafion thin films that utilizes thermal evaporation-induced capillary force lithography with swelling process. Mechanical electrical properties micro- nano-patterned can be controlled by adjusting curing temperature concentration.

Introduction and objective: In 1886, Starling proposed a hypothesis for the capillary–interstitial fluid (ISF) transfer, in which the capillary was thought a tube of a uniform diameter that is impermeable to plasma proteins. The flow of fluid across its wall was thought dependent upon a balance between the hydrostatic pressure within its lumen causing ‘filtration’, and the osmotic pressure of p...

Abstract A better understanding of the main forces that affect oil droplets is expected to play an important role in enhancing recovery from reservoirs. The effects various on droplet top a rock surface or hanging bottom are analysed. results proved increasing mass creates favourable condition for interaction between displaced and displacing fluids, which prevents fluid bypassing droplets. show...

In this work we derive an analytic expression for the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of dilute wet granular matter, valid for any spatial dimension. The grains are modeled as hard spheres and the influence of the wetting liquid is described according to the capillary model, in which dissipation is due to the hysteretic cohesion force of capillary bridges. The Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy is expanded in a...