Contact angle measurement and contact angle interpretation

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the recent research efforts on polymer adhesion with a special focus on adhesion mechanisms is presented, including mechanical coupling, chemical bonding, and thermodynamic adhesion.

TL;DR: A protocol for performing reliable and reproducible measurements of the advancing contact angle (ACA) and the receding contact angles (RCA) by slowly increasing and reducing the volume of a probe drop, respectively.

TL;DR: In the present article, attempts are made to give an overview of the basic principles behind the coating techniques as well as advantageous features such as bioactivity and biocompatibility associated with these coatings.

TL;DR: A broad review is carried out on wetting incidence in membrane distillation processes and describes the wetting mechanisms, wetting causes, and wetting detection methods, as well as hydrophobicity measurements of MD membranes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how the structure of a solid surface affects the contact angle that a liquid forms on the solid, and the level of structure considered there included features that are not macroscopically observed, such as microheterogeneities, or minute peaks, pits, hills, and grooves.

TL;DR: In this article, contact angles of 17 liquids on 3 hydrophobic solid surfaces, FC721, fluorinated ethylene propylene, and polyethylene terephthalate, were measured by using the Axisymmetric Drop Shape Analysis-Profile (ADSA-P) technique.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the methyl-rich surfaces of C36 and paraffin are not wetted by a wide variety of organic liquids, including the n-alkanes, so that the rule that nonpolar solids are not wettable by non-polar liquids is again found to be erroneous.

TL;DR: In this paper, the existence of negative interfacial tension at liquid/liquid interfaces was shown to be a real phenomenon between monopolar surfaces (i.e., surfaces with mainly H-acceptor properties) and polar liquids.