A quantitative experimental study of wetting hysteresis on discrete and continuous chemical heterogeneities

Chemically heterogeneous surfaces are well known to induce contact angle hysteresis due to the local energy barriers that oppose contact line movement. In many cases, the surface heterogeneity is discontinuous, i.e. discrete regions of different wettability exist, which leads to pinning of the conta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Priest, C., Sedev, Rossen, Ralston, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54458