title: Investigating the adhesion of water droplets at low temperatures.
abstract: Adhesion of droplets to solid surfaces at low temperatures is crucial for antifogging and antifreezing, etc. So far, most reports on adhesion measurements have been carried out in air-liquid-solid systems, but it remains difficult to precisely investigate the adhesion at low temperatures due to the uncontrollable condensation. On the basis of the liquid-liquid-solid system, a new method to measure the adhesion of water droplets at low temperatures was developed and employed. Moreover, the reported method could be viable in other liquid-liquid-solid systems with wider temperature window; thus, it will find applications in broad fields such as crude oil recovery, ore-dressing, and transfer printing.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory For Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Laboratory of New Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Huiling
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yanlin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang