The present work is an attempt to understand wetting on very rough surfaces for printing, coating, cooling etc. applications. Various kinds of PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane), deionized water, and glycerin-water (85%-15% vol.) mixture were used to wet the pyramidal arrays and concentric triangular circles, which have scales in millimeters. Wetting of the test substrates were done both in vertical and horizontal orientation, by dipping the substrate in a liquid bath and pumping the liquid through the center of the substrate, respectively. The apparent contact angle on each substrate was measured...
The present work is an attempt to understand wetting on very rough surfaces for printing, coating, cooling etc. applications. Various kinds of PDMS (p...