Water impacting on superhydrophobic macrotextures

Anaïs Gauthier, Sean Symon, Christophe Clanet and David Quéré ()
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Anaïs Gauthier: Physique and Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, UMR 7636 du CNRS, ESPCI
Sean Symon: Physique and Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, UMR 7636 du CNRS, ESPCI
Christophe Clanet: Physique and Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, UMR 7636 du CNRS, ESPCI
David Quéré: Physique and Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, UMR 7636 du CNRS, ESPCI

Nature Communications, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract It has been recently shown that the presence of macrotextures on superhydrophobic materials can markedly modify the dynamics of water impacting them, and in particular significantly reduce the contact time of bouncing drops, compared with what is observed on a flat surface. This finding constitutes a significant step in the maximization of water repellency, since it enables to minimize even further the contact between solid and liquid. It also opens a new axis of research on the design of super-structures to induce specific functions such as anti-freezing, liquid fragmentation and/or recomposition, guiding, trapping and so on. Here we show that the contact time of drops bouncing on a repellent macrotexture takes discrete values when varying the impact speed. This allows us to propose a quantitative analysis of the reduction of contact time and thus to understand how and why macrotextures can control the dynamical properties of bouncing drops.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9001

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