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曲线推进法驱动液滴

Driving Droplets by Curvi-Propulsion

Cunjing Lv, Chao Chen, Yin-Chuan Chuang, Fan-Gang Tseng, Yajun Yin, Francois Grey, Quanshui Zheng

摘要:

如何使小液滴在固体表面上自发地定向运动是芯片实验室技术、DNA分析和换热器中的一个挑战。最著名的机制,润湿性梯度,对于大多数目的来说不能足够快地移动液滴,并且不能移动小于由接触角滞后所限定的临界尺寸的液滴。在这里,我们报告的机制,使用曲率梯度,我们表明是特别有效的加速小液滴,并适用于亲水性和疏水性表面。在亚毫米范围内的玻璃锥上的水滴的实验表明,最大速度为0.28米/秒,两个数量级高于通过润湿性梯度获得。从简单的考虑液滴表面积的变化,我们表明,施加在液滴上的圆锥形表面的规模作为曲率梯度的力。因此,对于靠近圆锥尖端的小液滴,该力发散。我们用分子动力学模拟说明了这一点,并描述了纳米尺度的液滴自发移动超过100米/秒的纳米锥。

英文摘要:

How to make small liquid droplets move spontaneously and directionally on solid surfaces is a challenge in lab-on-chip technologies, DNA analysis, and heat exchangers. The best-known mechanism, a wettability gradient, does not move droplets rapidly enough for most purposes and cannot move droplets smaller than a critical size defined by the contact angle hysteresis. Here we report on a mechanism using curvature gradients, which we show is particularly effective at accelerating small droplets, and works for both hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces. Experiments for water droplets on glass cones in the sub-millimeter range show a maximum speed of 0.28 m/s, two orders of magnitude higher than obtained by wettability gradient. From simple considerations of droplet surface area change, we show that the force exerted on a droplet on a conical surface scales as the curvature gradient. This force therefore diverges for small droplets near the tip of a cone. We illustrate this using molecular dynamics simulations, and describe nanometer-scale droplets moving spontaneously at over 100 m/s on nano-cones.

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