- Title
- The dynamic nature of contact angles as measured by atomic force microscopy
- Creator
- Nguyen, Anh V.; Nalaskowski, Jakub; Miller, Jan D.
- Relation
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Vol. 262, Issue 1, p. 303-306
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9797(03)00123-1
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2003
- Description
- Atomic force microscopy appears to be a useful tool for determining the contact angle for small particles. It is shown in this paper that the contact angle of a spherical polyethylene particle changes with the speed of the AFM piezoelectric translator. Such dynamic behavior of the contact angle and other uncertainties such as the position of the three-phase contact on the particle surface during bubble–particle interaction make it difficult to decide whether or not the AFM single-particle contact angle can be used to describe the hydrophobic state of the particle surface.
- Subject
- contact angle; atomic force microscope; hydrophobicity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/33920
- Identifier
- uon:3384
- Identifier
- ISSN:0021-9797
- Language
- eng
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