ACS Applied Materials Interfaces : Micropatterning for the Control of Surface Cavitation...

Описание: Micropatterning for the Control of Surface Cavitation: Visualization through High-Speed Imaging. Valentina Belova-Magri et al (2015), ACS Applied Materials Interfaces http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/am508062h

For the first time, we apply a high-speed imaging technique to record the activity of acoustically driven cavitation bubbles (86 kHz) on micropatterned surfaces with hydrophobic and hydrophilic stripes. The width of the hydrophobic stripes lies between 3.5 and 115 μm. This work provides the first direct visualization of the preferential location of bubbles on the hydrophobic areas of the patterns. The results confirm our previous prediction that surface cavitation strongly depends on the surface energy of the irradiated substrate. The observations show a remarkable effect of the stripe width on the size, movement, growth, splitting, and multiplying of the bubbles. The high-speed imaging also reveals that there is a minimal width of the hydrophobic stripes that allows bubble attraction and formation. Our observations are supported by a theoretical approach based on the forces acting on the bubbles.

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