Evaluation of the evaporation route of a liquid droplet on Au coated and non-coated glass surfaces
Victor Akpe
A B * , Timothy J. Biddle A and Ian E. Cock A B *
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A School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Qld 4111, Australia.
B Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Qld 4111, Australia.
* Correspondence to: victor.akpe@griffithuni.edu.au, I.Cock@griffith.edu.au
Handling Editor: Richard Hoogenboom
Australian Journal of Chemistry 75(3) 220-230 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH21197
Submitted: 12 August 2021 Accepted: 6 December 2021 Published: 27 February 2022
© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
Abstract
The contact angle was used to estimate the rate of evaporation of liquid droplets on bare glass or gold (Au) sputtered glass surfaces. The rate of evaporation of water (a pure liquid) was higher than non-pure liquid composed of a 3 wt% solution of silica nanoparticles (SNP) on these two solid supports. Despite using the same initial drop volume (1 µL) throughout the experiment, the base diameter of the liquid droplet after evaporation on the different surfaces interestingly showed variations. While the liquid–solid interface displayed slip-length and contact angle variations throughout the evaporation time, the slip-length variations were more pronounced with colloidal SNP on Au-sputtered glass surfaces than pure liquid on bare glass surface. Potential application of this study was also investigated in the surface control of uniform silica microwires from colloidal SNP on Au-sputtered glass surface under low temperature conditions.
Keywords: colloidal particle, contact angle, droplet evaporation, dew point, liquid interface, surface coating, surface wetting, silica microwires.
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