Contact-line friction of liquid drops on self-assembled monolayers: Chain-length effects

The static and dynamic wetting properties of self-assembled alkanethiol monolayers of increasing chain length were studied. The molecular-kinetic theory of wetting was used to interpret the dynamic contact angle data and evaluate the contact-line friction on the microscopic scale. Although the surfaces had a similar static wettability, the coefficient of contact-line friction Cζ0increased linearly with alkyl chain length. This result supports the hypothesis of energy dissipation due to a local deformation of the nanometer-thick layer at the contact line. © 2007 American Chemical Society.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe