Water Impalement Resistance and Drag Reduction of the Superhydrophobic Surface with Hydrophilic Strips

Superhydrophobic surfaces (SHS) offer versatile applications by trapping an air layer within microstructures, while water jet impact can destabilize this air layer and deactivate the functions of the SHS. The current work presents for the first time that introducing parallel hydrophilic strips to SHS (SHS-s) can simultaneously improve both water impalement resistance and drag reduction (DR). Compared with SHS, SHS-s demonstrates a 125% increase in the enduring time against the impact of water jet with velocity of 11.9 m/s and a 97% improvement in DR at a Reynolds number of 1.4 × 104. The key mechanism lies in the enhanced stability of the air layer due to air confinement by the adjacent three-phase contact lines. These lines not only impede air drainage through the surface microstructures during water jet impact, entrapping the air layer to resist water impalement, but also prevent air floating up due to buoyancy in Taylor-Couette flow, ensuring an even spread of the air layer all over the rotor, boosting DR. Moreover, failure modes of SHS under water jet impact are revealed to be related to air layer decay and surface structure destruction. This mass-producible structured surface holds the potential for widespread use in DR for hulls, autonomous underwater vehicles, and submarines.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

ACS applied materials & interfaces - 16(2024), 13 vom: 03. Apr., Seite 16973-16982

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cao, Yanlin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaochao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Liangpei [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yanchen [VerfasserIn]
You, Chenxi [VerfasserIn]
Li, Hongyuan [VerfasserIn]
Duan, Huiling [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Jianyong [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Pengyu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Air confinement
Drag reduction
Journal Article
Parallel hydrophilic strips
Superhydrophobic surface
Water impalement resistance

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Date Revised 04.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acsami.3c18905

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369925130