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Mesoporous Coatings with Simultaneous Light‐Triggered Transition of Water Imbibition and Droplet Coalescence

Khalil, Adnan ; Rostami, Peyman ; Auernhammer, Günter K. ; Andrieu‐Brunsen, Annette (2021)
Mesoporous Coatings with Simultaneous Light‐Triggered Transition of Water Imbibition and Droplet Coalescence.
In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 8 (12)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00019911
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Mesoporous Coatings with Simultaneous Light‐Triggered Transition of Water Imbibition and Droplet Coalescence
Language: English
Date: 2021
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Publisher: Wiley
Journal or Publication Title: Advanced Materials Interfaces
Volume of the journal: 8
Issue Number: 12
Collation: 11 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00019911
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Origin: Secondary publication service
Abstract:

A systematic study of gating water infiltration and condensation into ceramic nanopores by carefully adjusting the wetting properties of mesoporous films using photoactive spiropyran is presented. Contact angle measurements from the side reveal significant changes in wettability after irradiation due to spiropyran/merocyanine-isomerization, which induce a wetting transition from dry to wet pores. The change in wettability allows the control of water imbibition in the nanopores and is reflected by the formation of an imbibition ring around a droplet. Furthermore, the photoresponsive wettability is able to overcome pinning effects and cause a movement of a droplet contact line, facilitating droplet coalescence, as recorded by high-speed imaging. The absorbed light not only effectuates droplet merging but also causes flows inside the drop due to heat absorption by the spiropyran, which results in gradients in the surface tension. IR imaging and particle tracking is used to investigate the heat absorption and temperature-induced flows, respectively. These flows can be used to manipulate, for example, molecular movement inside water and deposition inside solid mesoporous materials and are therefore of great importance for nanofluidic devices as well as for future water management concepts, which include filtering by imbibition and collection by droplet coalescence.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-199114
Classification DDC: 500 Science and mathematics > 540 Chemistry
Divisions: DFG-Collaborative Research Centres (incl. Transregio) > Collaborative Research Centres > CRC 1194: Interaction between Transport and Wetting Processes > Research Area A: Generic Experiments > A02: Experimental Investigation of Coalescence and Breakup of Droplets on Solid Surfaces – Generic Configuration Sessile Drop
DFG-Collaborative Research Centres (incl. Transregio) > Collaborative Research Centres > CRC 1194: Interaction between Transport and Wetting Processes > Research Area C: New and Improved Applications > C04: Controlled Dynamic Wetting and the Influence of Ionic Mass Transport in Mesoporous Film
Date Deposited: 19 Nov 2021 13:10
Last Modified: 09 Jan 2023 08:50
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/19911
PPN: 503408301
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