Structured Surfaces and Morphological Wetting Transitions

    Wetting layers at chemically structured surfaces undergo morphological transitions. [1] [2] [3] Such transitions also occur at topographically structured surfaces. [4] These transitions represent bifurcations in shape space, and reflect the freedom of contact angles at pinned contact lines. [5] For mobile contact lines, on the other hand, the contact angles depend on the line tension and its spatial variation. [6] Two recent reviews are [5] and [7].

  • H. Kusumaatmaja, R. Lipowsky, C. Jin, R.-C. Mutihac, and H. Riegler
    Nonisomorphic nucleation pathways arising from morphological transitions of liquid channels.
     Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 126102 (2012).

  • H. Kusumaatmaja and R. Lipowsky
    Equilibrium Morphologies and Effective Spring Constants of Capillary Bridges.
     Langmuir 26, 18734-18741 (2010).

  • C. Schäfle, M. Brinkmann, C. Bechinger, P. Leiderer, and R. Lipowsky
    Morphological wetting transitions at ring-shaped surface domains.
     Langmuir 26, 11878-11885 (2010).

  • P. Blecua, M. Brinkmann, R. Lipowsky, and J. Kierfeld
    Morphological Transitions of Liquid Droplets on Circular Surface Domains.
     Morphological Transitions of Liquid Droplets ... - Supporting information.
     Langmuir 25, 13493-13502 (2009)

  • P. Blecua, R. Lipowsky and J. Kierfeld
    Line Tension Effects for Liquid Droplets on Circular Surface Domains.
     Langmuir 22, 11041 - 11059 (2006).

  • R. Lipowsky, M. Brinkmann, R. Dimova, C. Haluska, J. Kierfeld and J. Shillcock
    Wetting, budding, and fusion - morphological transitions of soft surfaces.
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, S2885 - S2902 (2005).

  • M. Brinkmann, J. Kierfeld and R. Lipowsky
    Stability of liquid channels or filaments in the presence of line tension.
     J. Phys. Condensed Matter 17, 2349 - 2364, (2005).

  • R. Lipowsky, M. Brinkmann, R. Dimova, T. Franke, J. Kierfeld and X. Zhang
    Droplets, bubbles, and vesicles at chemically structured surfaces.
     J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, S537-S558, (2005).

  • R. Seemann, M. Brinkmann, E.J. Kramer, F.F. Lange and R. Lipowsky
    Wetting morphologies at microstructured surfaces.
     Wetting morphologies at microstructured surfaces - Supporting information.
     PNAS 102, 1848-1852, (2005).

  • M. Brinkmann, J. Kierfeld and R. Lipowsky
    A general stability criterion for droplets on structured substrates.
    J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37, 11547 - 11573 (2004).

  • A. Valencia and R. Lipowsky.
    Nucleation through a double barrier on a chemically patterned substrate.
    Langmuir 20, 1986-1996 (2004).

  • M. Brinkmann and R. Lipowsky
    Wetting morphologies on substrates with striped surface domains.
    J. Appl. Phys. 92, 4296-4306 (2002).

  • P. Lenz, C. Bechinger, C. Schäfle, P. Leiderer, and R. Lipowsky.
    Perforated wetting layers from periodic patterns of lyophobic surface domains.
    Langmuir, 17, 7814-7822 (2001).

  • R. Lipowsky.
    Morphological wetting transitions at chemically structured surfaces.
    Current Opinion Colloid Interface Sci. 6 , 40-48 (2001).

  • A. Valencia, M. Brinkmann, and R. Lipowsky.
    Liquid Bridges in Chemically Structured Slit Pores.
    Langmuir 17 , 3390-3399 (2001).

  • R. Lipowsky.
    Structured Surfaces and Morphological Wetting Transitions.
    Interface Science 9 , 105-115 (2001).

  • P. Lenz, W. Fenzl, and R. Lipowsky.
    Wetting of ring-shaped surface domains.
    Europhys. Lett. 53 , 618- 624 (2001).

  • R. Lipowsky, P. Lenz, and P. Swain.
    Wetting and Dewetting of Structured or Imprinted Surfaces.
    Colloids and Surfaces A 161, 3-22 (2000).

  • P. Swain and R. Lipowsky.
    Wetting between structured surfaces: liquid bridges and induced forces.
    Europhys. Lett. 49, 203-209 (2000).

  • P. Lenz and R. Lipowsky.
    Stability of droplets on homogeneous and structured surfaces.
    Eur. Phys. J. E 1, 249-262 (2000).

  • H. Gau, S. Herminghaus, P. Lenz, and R. Lipowsky.
    Liquid Morphologies on Structured Surfaces: From Microchannels to Microchips.
    Science 283, 46-49 (1999).

  • P. Swain and R. Lipowsky.
    Contact angles on structured surfaces: a new look at Cassie's and Wenzel's laws.
    Langmuir 14, 6772-6780 (1998).

  • P. Lenz and R. Lipowsky.
    Morphological transitions of wetting layers on structured surfaces.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1920-1923 (1998).