The georgia tech contact angle measurement device goniometer, located in the biocleanroom, is a softwaredriven instrument providing automated digital contact angle measurements. East, vertical and horizontal, are said to form a right angle corresponding to a quarter circle, 90, or. The contact angle is the angle, conventionally measured through the liquid, where a liquid vapor interface meets a solid surface. Contact angle measurement has been broadly accepted for material surface analysis related to wetting, adhesion, and absorption. Measurement of contact angles of sessile drops deposited on surfaces is a powerful analysis tool that is widely used in several industry sectors, from cosmetics to semiconductors, coatings and food. How to choose contact angle meter or contact angle. Cheminstruments camplus c, 120 contactangle meter, 2 to 180. Contact angle measurement the hydrophobic or hydrophilic properties of solids can be determined with the help of the contact angle measurement of water.
Both optical and force tensiometers enable static and dynamic contact angle measurements. Using the bikerman equation, the contact angle of a sessile drop can be measured from above. Click next and repeat the process for a total of six measurements per liquid. Material with superhydrophilic contact angle below 3. How to measure contact angle the ramehart instrument co. Inline process control of wettability by means of contact angle.
Surfacewetting characterization using contactangle measurements. Contact angle is defined geometrically as the angle formed by a liquid at the threephase boundary where a liquid, gas and solid intersect. The pgx is a fully automated contact angle measurement instrument that measures surface wetting and absorption insitu on virtually any size or shape of surface. Many methods of contact angle measurement have been developed, but the most common used in the petroleum industry are sessile drop method and a modified form of the sessile drop method. Ideal for applications that require grading surface treatments, testing surfactants, ink adhesion, and checking materials before bonding or applying coatings. The image analysis will be further explained by a description of the vari ous measurement methods. The goniometer should be equipped with levels allowing levelling of the stage on which measurements are made. How does contact angle measurement detect contamination. With a footprint of only 90mm x 55mm and weighing just 400g, it is the smallest contact angle measurement device available, with features previously found only in larger laboratory. Static contact angle measurement involves the placement of microliter sized droplets on a sample surface. In principle, it provides information about the wettability of an ideal surface. The contact angle is measured using the image of a sessile drop at the points of intersection threephase contact points between the drop contour and. The third image is of a water plastic interface which is also hydrophobic with a contact angle of 76 degrees.
The contact angle is the angle at the interface where water, air and solid meet, and its value is a measure of how likely the surface is to be wetted by the water. Oca optical contact angle measuring and contour analysis. Measuring advancing and receding contact angle with the tilting stage assmebly tilting stage control interface vca optima software calculates asymmetrical drop image with accuracy. A basic and affordable experimental apparatus is described that measures the static contact angle of a liquid drop in contact with a solid. For a known drop volume, the contact angle can be derived from a measurement of the drop diameter. Drop shape analysis is a convenient way to measure contact angles and thereby determine surface energy. This instrument has been furnished with a 4 rotating wafer support stage and automated tilting base option. Critical micelle concentration the proportion of molecules present at the surface of a liquid or as micelles in the bulk of a liquid depends on their concentration. Wetting was characterized by measuring the contact angle formed between the liquid drop and solid surface. Change of weight as a function of time is measured. The rate of rise of the liquid column depends, among other things, on the. The instrument of choice to measure contact angles and dynamic contact angles is an optical tensiometer.
Contact angle measurement using the half angle method of drawing a line from the triphase point to the apex of the drop. This force depends on the contact angle as well as on the surface tension and the wetted length. It quantifies the wettability of a solid surface by a liquid via the young equation. The last image is water on a glass slide which is hydrophilic. The successful demonstration of use of a smartphone mobile phone to conduct contact angle measurement is a significant advancement in the field as it breaks the dominate mold of use of. Angles less than a right angle are said to be acute, those greater than 90 are obtuse.
Adjust height and then trim tilt to bring the drop vertically into the image. Static, advancing, receding contact angles may be measured specifications 1. The pgx portable contact angle measurement meter is trusted in a wide range of industries and especially suited to the evaluation of samples both before and after plasma treatment, being fully compliant with official test methods astm d724 and astm d5946. In most cases, the intrinsic value of contact angle. Contact angle measurement an overview sciencedirect topics. The technique makes it possible to characterize transient and dynamic. Contact angle measurements were originally performed as static measurements only, as this was sufficient to fulfill youngs equation. Apr 29, 1999 measurement of the angle should be on a levelled plane. We used previous developed strobed led hardware to measure contact angle.
Pdf the wettability of porous powders is typically described by the solidliquid contact angle and finds importance in the fields of catalysis. A more precise method measures b and h by drawing a rectangle that. Powder contact angle measurement using the washburn method. General method of contact angle meter is useless in this condition. The contact angle measurement is a traditional method to describe the hydrophobic or hydrophilic behaviour of a material. Assessment and interpretation of surface wettability based.
To create a zisman plot from a series of contact angle measurements to determine the surface tension of polytetrafluoroethylene teflon. At low concentrations, surfactants in low concentrations occupy the surface of the liquid. Guidelines to measurements of reproducible contact angles. Measuring the contact angle using imagej with contact angle plugin method pdf available november 2018 with 4,902 reads how we measure reads. To account for this, the uncertainty in contact angle is calculated. Contact angle and surface free energy as long ago as 1805 young established a relationship between the contact angle. When attracted by the solid, the liquid forms a drop with low contact angles. Ras 1,3 wetting, the process of water interacting with a. Assessing the accuracy of contact angle measurements for. The profile of the drop is then processed with imagej free software.
The measurement of a single static contact angle to characterize the solidliquid interaction is not adequate because, in practice, there is no single equilibrium contact angle. Contact angle measurements using a simplified experimental. An intermediatewet surface center also forms a bead, but the contact angle. Interactions between the liquid and solid can be attractive or repulsive. You have a choice of allmanual, allautomatic, and mixed manualautomatic measurements. Mar 30, 2018 the successful demonstration of use of a smartphone mobile phone to conduct contact angle measurement is a significant advancement in the field as it breaks the dominate mold of use of a computer and a bench bound setup for such systems since their appearance in 1980s. Contact angle measurements biofouling methods wiley. Despite its experimental simplicity, caution is required in the measurement and interpretation of the sessile contact angle as a wettability metric. The theoretical basis of the contact angle is based on the youngs equation. Pdf a comparison of contact angle measurement techniques. The contact angle measurement is based on the regular reflection on a.
Camera using this contact angle measurement system by gbx company. Introduction the contact angle is the angle between solidliquid interaction at interface or two vapors or two liquids. The possibility of estimating solid surface tensions from contact angles relies on a relation which has been recognized by young in 1805. As can be easily seen, the contact angle accuracy improves with an increase in ball count and as the contact angle increases. Optima xe contact angle measurement introduction the vca optima contact angle measurement system figure 1 incorporates lightweight design, easy assembly, and the latest windows standards and user. A drop lying on the solid surface forms a characteristic contact angle with the surface at the threephase contact point. However, for a proper analysis, the two extremes, namely advancing and receding contact angle. C is the cassie contact angle, f 1 is the fractional surface area with contact angle. Contact angle measurement and contact angle interpretation. The oca 15ec is the entry level measuring device for professional contact angle measurements and drop shape analysis. The contact angle of a liquid drop on a solid surface is defined by the mechanical equilibrium of the drop under the action of three interfacial tensions. Contact angle measurement in lattice boltzmann method arxiv. Contact angle measurements hong kong university of. Enables measurement of average contact angle sorption speed for powders and other porous materials.
Contact angle measurements continued determination of surface free energy zisman plot for monolayer of ch 3ch 2 21sh on gold 1 critical surface tension. Determination of contact angle from contact area of liquid droplet. Measurement of surface tension and contact angle using entropic edge detection c ataeallah1, m cabrerizovlchez1,jfg. Using a high speed camera, powerful optics and a unique picoliter to nanoliter droplet dispensing system enables contact angle measurements of micron sized surfaces and features. Low contact angle option assume at low contact angle, the drop image possess vertical mirror symmetry reflective surfaceoption assumes the drop image possesses horizontal mirror symmetry and the axis of symmetry is the contact boundary when measuring advancing and receding contact angles. Camera angle is set by the height of the camera relative to the specimen and by the tilt of the camera stage. However, the base of the sample is not always flat or parallel and therefore the drop may not be flat, causing the calculated contact to be unequal. Optical tensiometer contact angle meter dyne technology. Contact angle measurement has completed the step from the test laboratory into. Yu and ziegler 160 characterized the cls using a ccm. To evaluate the contact angle measurement of materials using wetting. Sep 28, 2009 we developed software for measuring contact angle. A more precise method measures b and h by drawing a rectangle that connects the triphase points and the apex of the drop 2 manual methods using digital images computer graphics software packages and usb. The term goniometry derives from two greek words, gonia, meaning angle, and metron, meaning measure.
Take contact angle readings of liquid droplets on small, flat, curved, or cylindrical surfaces to determine surface wettability. There are slight differences in the positive and negative uncertainties of contact angle because of the nonlinear nature of the bikerman equation. However, contact angles are typically measured simply by depositing a drop of liquid on a given solid surface, and manually placing a tangent to. A protocol for contact angle measurement iopscience. However, in practice a dynamic phenomenon of contact angle. The angle formed at the boundary of the droplet is the contact angle, which characterizes a surfaces wettability. Figure 3shows the construction of the contact angle and interfacial tension measuring system with a meniscograph instrument. A method for measuring contact angle of asymmetric and symmetric drops was proposed by chini and amir fazli 201 1, ca lled su bpi xel pol ynomial fitting spp f. They found that the first attachment of a water droplet at the cl surface showed a relatively high contact angle, and then the contact angle. Pdf the sensitivity of contact angle to local changes in the surface morphology during nanofluid pool boiling process is critical to. In this work, the major challenges related to the use of the sessile droplet contact angle. While deriving youngs equation, we assumed an ideal solid that is chemically homogeneous, smooth, rigid, and flat to an atomic scale.
Contact angle measuring instrument dsa100 processor tensiometer k100 with care to accuracy. Dynamic contact angle measurements quantify contact angle hysteresis the difference between advancing and receding contact angles, rolloff angle. A goniometer is an instrument that either measures an angle or allows an object to be rotated to a precise angular position. Contact angle measurements using cellphone cameras to implement the bikerman method article pdf available in galvanotechnik 1028. Clean mica if further cleaning is prescribed, prepare a wash solution containing 9. Surfacewetting characterization using contactangle. The increase in weight of an immersed powderfilled tube is measured with respect to time. Micro contact angle measurement is great for fibers, micro patterns and surfaces too small for conventional contact angle analysis. The most common mixed mode measurement is to manually set the baseline the liquidsolid interfacial line and then have the software automatically find the drop profile. To determine the free surface energy of solids, contact angle measurements are carried out with defined liquids, and these measurements. The most commonlyemployed technique for measuring the contact angle. The sample table of the oca 15ec can slide freely in x and ydirection and is.
Dynamic contact angle measurements quantify contact angle hysteresis the difference between advancing and receding contact angles, rolloff angle and absorption which can. Pdf contact angle measurements using cellphone cameras to. Peel off external layers of mica using scotch tape. The image of the drop is made with a simple digital camera by taking a picture that is magnified by an optical lens. Both the horizontal, 0, and look down, 3, methods will be illustrated. It is based on the classical liquidsolidvapor interaction model figure 1. Contact angle measurements anderson materials evaluation, inc. Surface tension alone does not explain the shape of a drop on a solid. Contact angle measurement is the preferred and most accurate method of much vital laboratory measurement and research for determining the interactions at the solidgasliquid interface.
The wellknown young equation describes the balance at the threephase contact of solidliquid and gas. Guidelines to measurements of reproducible contact angles using a sessiledrop technique article in surface innovations 14. A given system of solid, liquid, and vapor at a given temperature and pressure has a unique equilibrium contact angle. The contact angle is the angle, conventionally measured through the liquid, where a liquidvapor interface meets a solid surface. Technical note practical contact angle measurement 4 technical note. Measurement for contact angle of iron ore particles and water. Observe the angle of a line through the centerline of the. Cleave mica prepare thin, rectangular mica samples 1cm x 2 cm. This is small compared to the variances from spot to spot on most surfaces, and it is also small compared to the uncertainties in current theory for converting contact angles to surface energies. Contact angle measurements using cellphone cameras to. In that case, receding angles can be measured with a drop of decane brought into contact. Influence of topography on contact angle measurements.
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