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The Lotus Effect: Superhydrophobicity and Metastability
Abstract
To learn how to mimic the Lotus effect, superhydrophobicity of a model system that resembles the Lotus leaf is theoretically discussed. Superhydrophobicity is defined by two criteria: a very high water contact angle and a very low roll-off angle. Since it is very difficult to calculate the latter for rough surfaces, it is proposed here to use the criterion of a very low wet (solid-liquid) contact area as a simple, approximate substitute for the roll-off angle criterion. It is concluded that nature employs metastable states in the heterogeneous wetting regime as the key to superhydrophobicity on Lotus leaves. This strategy results in two advantages: (a) it avoids the need for high steepness protrusions that may be sensitive to breakage and (b) it lowers the sensitivity of the superhydrophobic states to the protrusion distance.
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- Authors
- Marmur, A.
- Venue
- Langmuir
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2004-04-01
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 3517-3519
- ISSN
- 0743-7463 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5827
- OpenAlex
- W2028222924
- Cited by
- 1,123
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 16.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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