The dynamics of reactive wetting on solid surfaces

P.G. de Gennes

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1998, vol. 249, issue 1, 196-205

Abstract: Hydrodynamic instabilities driven by chemical reactions at the interface between two liquids have been observed long ago, but lead to very complex situations. We focus here on a relatively simpler case, where a liquid reacts with a solid substrate. When the reaction makes the substrate less wettable, running droplets show up: a drop tends to escape from its own trail. We discuss these experiments and related situations: one interesting future possibility is offered by a solid, porous, bead soaked with the reactive fluid: this should roll spontaneously with velocities ∼1mm/s. Another sector of interest is stick-slip motions induced by a solid plate which is slowly plunging into a reactive fluid.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00466-4

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