State and Rate Dependent Contact Line Dynamics over an Aging Soft Surface

We report direct atomic-force-microscope measurements of capillary force hysteresis (CFH) of a circular contact line (CL) formed on a long glass fiber, which is coated with a thin layer of soft polymer film and intersects a water-air interface. The measured CFH shows a distinct overshoot for the dep...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 124; no. 18; p. 188003
Main Authors Guan, Dongshi, Charlaix, Elisabeth, Tong, Penger
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 08.05.2020
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Summary:We report direct atomic-force-microscope measurements of capillary force hysteresis (CFH) of a circular contact line (CL) formed on a long glass fiber, which is coated with a thin layer of soft polymer film and intersects a water-air interface. The measured CFH shows a distinct overshoot for the depinning of a static CL, and the overshoot amplitude grows logarithmically with both the hold time τ and fiber speed V. A unified model based on the slow growth of a wetting ridge and force-assisted barrier crossing is developed to explain the observed time (or state) and speed (or rate) dependent CL depinning dynamics over an aging soft surface. The experimental findings have important implications to a common class of problems involving depinning dynamics in a defect or roughness landscape, such as friction of solid interfaces.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.188003