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EPL
Volume 79, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/79/56005
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We describe how a wetting liquid brought into contact with a forest of micropillars impregnates this forest. Both the driving and the viscous forces depend on the parameters of the texture ( radius b and height h of the pillars, pitch p of the network) and it is found that two different limits characterize the dynamics of wicking. For small posts ( h< p), the film progresses all the faster since the posts are high, allowing a simple control of this dynamics. For tall pillars ( h> p), the speed of impregnation becomes independent of the pillar height, and becomes mainly fixed by the radius of the posts.
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