Graphene drape minimizes the pinning and hysteresis of water drops on nanotextured rough surfaces

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3512-3521

  Singh, Eklavya ^a   Thomas, Abhay V ^a   Mukherjee, Rahul ^a   Mi, Xi ^a   Houshmand, Farzad ^a   Peles, Yoav ^a   Shi, Yunfeng ^a   Koratkar, Nikhil ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

contact angle hysteresis; contact line pinning; droplet mobility; energy dissipation; graphene drape

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE HYSTERESIS; CONTACT LINE PINNING; DYNAMIC WETTABILITIES; FRICTIONAL ENERGY DISSIPATIONS; HIGH FLEXIBILITY; MECHANICALLY ROBUST; POLYMER COATING; TEXTURED SURFACE;

CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTACT ANGLE; DROPS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HYSTERESIS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADSORPTION; GRAPHITE; HARDNESS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER;

EID: 84876553212     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400466t     Document Type: Article

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