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Vibration Spectroscopy of a Sessile Drop and Its Contact Line

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LANGMUIR
Volume 28, Issue 39, Pages 14100-14106

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la302958m

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Resonance frequencies of small sessile liquid drops (1-20 mu L) were estimated from the power spectra of their height fluctuations after subjecting them to white noise vibration. Various resonance modes could be identified with this method as a function of the mass of the drop. Studies with water drops on such supports as polystyrene (theta approximate to 80 degrees) and a superhydrophobic surface of microfibrillar silicone rubber (theta approximate to 162 degrees) demonstrated that the resonant frequency decreases with the contact angle, theta. This trend is in remarkable agreement with the current models of the resonant vibration of sessile drops. A novel aspect of this study is the analysis of the modes of a slipping contact line that indicated that its higher frequency modes are more severely damped than its lower ones. Another case is with the glycerol water solutions, where the resonance frequency decreases with the concentration of glycerol purely due to the capillary effects. The interface fluctuation, on the other hand, is strongly correlated with the kinematic viscosity of the liquid. Thus, these experiments provide a means to measure the surface tension and the viscosity of very small droplets.

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