2016-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2016 Volume 11: Physics, Advanced/Multifunctional Materials, Composite, Quasi-crystals, Coating
| Editors: | Kongoli F, Marquis F, Lu L, Xia H, Masset P, Rokicki P |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 180 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-56-0 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Wetting and elasto-plasticity based sculpture of liquid marbles
pingcheng Zuo1; Jianlin Liu1;1CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA), Qingdao, China;
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 325
Topic: 20
Abstract:
As an emerging material with exotic properties, liquid marble holds great potential for such areas as microfluidics, stimuli-responsive sensors, micro-chemical reactors, micro-bioreactors, energy harvesting
devices, and mechanical structures. In this study, we mainly concentrate on the mechanical behaviors, such as elasto-plasticity of liquid marble with the decrease of liquid volume. The contact radius with the substrate and Young¡¯s contact angle of liquid marble are both measured with the change of water volume, and those of a water droplet are compared. The mechanism for the different responses for liquid marble and water droplet is clarified according to the mechanics analysis. Moreover, it is found that liquid marble can behave like an elasto-plastic material when the particle surface density is big enough. Based upon this fact, liquid marble can be sculpted to all kinds of special shapes as expected. These investigations may cast new light on how to engineer multifunctional materials and devices, which are beneficial to microprinting and micromachining.