Wetting and Wettability
Wetting properties on nanostructured surfaces of cicada wings
... the wettability of forewings of 15 species of cicadas, with distinctly different wetting properties related to their ...Thus, wetting properties at the macroscopic scale were dependent on slight ...
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Profile Characterization and Temperature Effect on the Wettability of Microstructured Surfaces
... surface wettability at non-ambient temperature especially at high temperature (30˚C to 90˚C) is of great importance in many industrial ...investigate wettability at different ...ture-dependent ...
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Dominant Influence of the Terminal Molecule of PNIPA Chain on Wettability
... Therefore, wetting is usually the first stage in adhesion (Abraham ...adhesive. Wetting on the rough surface may consider either of two regimes: homogenous wetting (Wenzel 1936) or heterogeneous ...
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Wettability Switching Techniques on Superhydrophobic Surfaces
... their wetting behavior is highly dependent on their arrangement and can vary from hydrophilic to hydrophobic and even superhydrophobic with in addition isotropic to anisotropic CA ...gradient wettability is ...
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Wettability effects on Bandera Gray Sandstone using biosurfactants
... qualitative wettability tests revealed that the biosurfactants can decrease the oil wetting of strongly oil-wet Bandera Gray sandstone by changing the wettability of the surface chemistry of the rock ...
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Effect of Laser Texturing Parameters on Wettability of Nickel Surface
... DOI: 10.4236/msce.2018.67017 167 Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering forms regular pits and bulges. Due to the illumination of the laser, the material in the illuminated area is burned and removed, ...
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Assessment of Wettability of Surfactant Solutions in Stainless Steel
... Figure 7 shows that the behavior of the contact angle curves using both nonionic surfactants was similar, with a tendency to an increase in contact angle with increasing ethoxylation degree. The deviation in the values ...
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Wettability versus roughness of engineering surfaces
... the wettability of real surfaces has been performed for a wide range of common engineering ...the wetting properties has been evaluated by contact angle measurement ...
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Wettability of denture base materials: a comparative invitro study
... the wetting medium. The wettability of the solid by a liquid is determined by measuring the contact angle () between the drop of the w contact angle indicates good wetting and the high contact angle ...
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Numerical Simulation of Dynamic Wetting Behavior in the Wetting Balance Method
... evaluate wettability using wetting balance ...during wetting balance test was simu- lated and the results were translated into conventional wetting ...calculated wetting curve was ...
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Role of Plasma Surface Treatments on Wetting and Adhesion
... enhancements, the technology of atmospheric plasma treaters is giving evidence of performance benefits in increasing wettability and adhesion of polymeric sur- faces [2-8]. More recently, experiments with plasma ...
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Quantification of wettability characteristics for carbonates using different salinities
... It is also clear that the adhesion tension of dolomite and calcite rocks for crude oil C is relatively higher than of crude oil A and B, resulting in a high degree of oil-wetting. As mentioned earlier, crude oil C ...
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Influence of the cross-section shape in the capillaries on the wetting properties demonstrated by the calculated wetting angles
... specific wettability indicated by systematic differences between the values of the Sessile Drop Method and the Wilhelmy Plate Method (Bachmann et ...the wetting angles mea- sured directly with liquids at ...
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Wetting angle and water sorptivity in mineral soils
... Figure 3 presents the relationships between me- niscus radius and meniscus position vs. wetting perimeter position, e.g. r m = f(x) and x m = f(x) for a capillary from Figure 2 (Eqs. 6 and 7). There are no x m and ...
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Investigating the Effect of Various Nanomaterials on the Wettability of Sandstone Reservoir
... Silicon and zirconium oxides have been studied extensively in the past years due to their superior physico- chemical properties. These properties are classified as follows: higher thermal and chemical stability, hardy ...
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The Wetting of Platinum and its Alloys by Glass54-59
... All the gold-bearing alloys were found to fail at the grain boundaries after high tem- perature stressing. This behaviour occurred[r] ...
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The Wetting of Platinum and Its Alloys by Glass130-135
... rapidly increase the resistance to wetting of The effect of gold on the equilibrium platinum by borosilicate glass is illustrated in contact angle of alloys containing 85 [r] ...
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The Wetting of Platinum and Its Alloys By Glass92-99
... The changes of contact angle that occurred with time when the “E” glass was supported on pure platinum in air at constant tempera- ture are plotted in Fig.. The gradual adv[r] ...
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Sorption and wetting properties of pectin edible films
... Experimental data and isotherms curves by Peleg’s equation for water vapour sorption of pectin films with different content of glycerol.. The change in the water content with a w was sma[r] ...
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Wetting and spreading of droplets on rough aluminum surfaces
... Gradient of RMS Sdq is used mainly to assess the quality of wearing surface, surfaces with special requirements for their wetting by various liquids, characteristics analysis of reflecting surface and appearance ...
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