Jacob W. Chesna
Aerial wetting contact angle measurement using confocal microscopy
Chesna, Jacob W.; Wiedmaier, Bob F.; Wang, Jinlin; Samara, Ayman; Leach, Richard K.; Her, Tsing-Hua; Smith, Stuart T.
Authors
Bob F. Wiedmaier
Jinlin Wang
Ayman Samara
Richard K. Leach
Tsing-Hua Her
Stuart T. Smith
Abstract
A method is presented in which the wetting contact angle of a sessile drop is acquired aerially using confocal techniques to measure the radius and the height of a droplet deposited on a planar surface. The repeatability of this method is typically less than 0.25°, and often less than 0.1°, for droplet diameters less than 1 mm. To evaluate accuracy of this method, an instrument uncertainty budget is developed, which predicts a combined uncertainty of 0.91° for a 1 mm diameter water droplet with a contact angle of 110°. For droplets having diameters less than 1 mm and contact angles between 15° and 160°, these droplets approach spherical shape and their contact angles can be computed analytically with less than 1% error. For larger droplets, gravitational deformation needs to be considered.
Citation
Chesna, J. W., Wiedmaier, B. F., Wang, J., Samara, A., Leach, R. K., Her, T.-H., & Smith, S. T. (in press). Aerial wetting contact angle measurement using confocal microscopy. Measurement Science and Technology, 27(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/27/12/125202
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 16, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 26, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Oct 28, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 28, 2016 |
Journal | Measurement Science and Technology |
Print ISSN | 0957-0233 |
Electronic ISSN | 1361-6501 |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 27 |
Issue | 12 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/27/12/125202 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/821456 |
Publisher URL | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0957-0233/27/12/125202/meta |
Contract Date | Oct 28, 2016 |
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