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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 376, Issue -, Pages 307-311Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.02.072
Keywords
Contact angle; Capillary rise; Washburn equation; Wettability; Particle
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- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University in China [IRT0966]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50578072]
- Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province of China [1014RJZA041]
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Capillary rise is the basis of some methods that are widely applied for the determination of contact angles as well as wettabilities of small particles. The equivalent hydraulic radius r(d) in the Classical Washburn equation is assumed to be particle-specific. But it seems that r(d) is not always constant when the type of liquids is different. The new equation with the pressure increment and the hydrostatic effects are theoretically derived based on the Washburn equation, so contact angles of small particles can be measured experimentally independently of r(d). The result shows the validity of the proposed method, and therefore, it becomes possible to accurately measure the wettability of small particles. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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