Phase Separation in Wetting Ridges of Sliding Drops on Soft and Swollen Surfaces

Lukas Hauer; Zhuoyun Cai; Artem Skabeev; Doris Vollmer; Jonathan T. Pham

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.058205

Phase Separation in Wetting Ridges of Sliding Drops on Soft and Swollen Surfaces

Lukas Hauer
, Zhuoyun Cai
, Artem Skabeev
, Doris Vollmer
, Jonathan T. Pham

Chemical and Materials Engineering

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Abstract

Drops in contact with swollen, elastomeric substrates can induce a capillary mediated phase separation in wetting ridges. Using confocal microscopy, we visualize phase separation of oligomeric silicone oil from a cross-linked silicone network during steady-state sliding of water drops. We find an inverse relationship between the oil tip height and the drop sliding speed, which is rationalized by competing transport timescales of the oil molecules: separation rate versus drop-advection speed. Separation rates in highly swollen networks are as fast as diffusion in pure melts.

Original language	English
Article number	058205
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	130
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.058205
State	Published - Feb 3 2023

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© 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.

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We thank Rodrique G.\u2009M. Badr, Abhinav Naga, Friederike Schmid, and William S.\u2009Y. Wong for discussions. This research is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through Grant No. 2043732 (Z.\u2009C., J.\u2009T.\u2009P.), the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the Priority Programme 2171 (L.\u2009H., D.\u2009V.), and the Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics\u2014University of Twente (D.\u2009V.).

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics—University of Twente
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China	2043732

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