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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 111, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3697895
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [W91CRB-10-1-0003]
- VCU
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To better understand the role of fiber orientation on the stability of superhydrophobic electrospun coatings under hydrostatic pressures, an integro-differential equation is developed from the balance of forces across the air-water interface between the fibers. This equation is solved numerically for a series of superhydrophobic electrospun coatings comprised of random and orthogonal fiber orientations to obtain the exact 3D shape of the air-water interface as a function of hydrostatic pressure. More important, this information is used to predict the pressure at which the coatings start to transition from the Cassie state to the Wenzel state, i.e., the so-called critical transition pressure. Our results indicate that coatings composed of orthogonal fibers can withstand higher elevated hydrostatic pressures than those made up of randomly orientated fibers. Our results also prove that thin superhydrophobic coatings can better resist the elevated pressures. The modeling methodology presented here can be used to design nanofibrous superhydrophobic coatings for underwater applications. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3697895]
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