Decoupling of the liquid response of a superhydrophobic quartz crystal microbalance

Roach, Paul, McHale, Glen, Evans, Carl, Shirtcliffe, Neil and Newton, Michael (2007) Decoupling of the liquid response of a superhydrophobic quartz crystal microbalance. Langmuir, 23 (19). pp. 9823-9830. ISSN 0743-7463

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Abstract

Recent reports using particle image velocimetry and cone-and-plate rheometers have suggested that a simple Newtonian liquid flowing across a superhydrophobic surface demonstrates a finite slip length. Slippage on a superhydrophobic surface indicates that the combination of topography and hydrophobicity may have consequences for the coupling at the solid-liquid interface observed using the high-frequency shear-mode oscillation of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). In this work, we report on the response of a 5 MHz QCM possessing a superhydrophobic surface to immersion in water-glycerol mixtures. QCM surfaces were prepared with a layer of SU-8 photoresist and lithographically patterned to produce square arrays of 5 mu m diameter circular cross-section posts spaced 10 mu m center-to-center and with heights of 5,10, 15, and 18 mu m. Non-pattemed layers were also created for comparison, and both non-hydrophobized and chemically hydrophobized surfaces were investigated. Contact angle measurements confirmed that the hydrophobized post surfaces were superhydrophobic. QCM measurements in water before and after applying pressure to force a Cassie-Baxter (non-penetrating) to Wenzel (penetrating) conversion of state showed a larger frequency decrease and higher dissipation in the Wenzel state. QCM resonance spectra were fitted to a Butterworth-van Dyke model for the full range of water-glycerol mixtures from pure water to (nominally) pure glycerol, thus providing data on both energy storage and dissipation. The data obtained for the post surfaces show a variety of types of behavior, indicating the importance of the surface chemistry in determining the response of the quartz crystal resonance, particularly on topographically structured surfaces; data for hydrophobized post surfaces imply a decoupling of the surface oscillation from the mixtures. In the case of the 15 mu m tall hydrophobized post surfaces, crystal resonance spectra become narrower as the viscosity -density product increases, which is contrary to the usual behavior. In the most extreme case of the 18 mu m tall hydrophobized post surfaces, both the frequency decrease and bandwidth increase of the resonance spectra are significantly lower than that predicted by the Kanazawa and Gordon model, thus implying a decoupling of the oscillating surface from the liquid, which can be interpreted as interfacial slip

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	slip, Contact Angle, wetting, acoustic wave, QCM
Subjects:	F100 Chemistry F300 Physics H600 Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User:	Glen McHale
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2012 09:26
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:06
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8310

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