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When a water droplet on a micropillar-structured hydrophobic surface is submitted to gradually increased pressure, the Cassie-Baxter wetting state transforms into the Wenzel wetting state once the pressure exceeds a critical value. It has been assumed that the reverse transition (Wenzel-to-Cassie-Baxter wetting state) cannot happen spontaneously after the pressure has been removed. In this paper, we report a new wetting-state transition. When external pressure is exerted on a droplet in the Cassie-Baxter wetting state on textured surfaces with high micropillars to trigger the breakdown of this wetting state, the droplet penetrates the micropillars but does not touch the base of the surface to trigger the occurrence of the Wenzel wetting state. We have named this state the suspended penetration wetting state. Spontaneous recovery from the suspended penetration wetting state to the initial Cassie-Baxter wetting state is achieved when the pressure is removed. Based on the experimental results, we built models to establish the penetration depth that the suspended penetration wetting state could achieve and to understand the energy barrier that influences the equilibrium position of the liquid surface. These results deepen our understanding of wetting states on rough surfaces subjected to external disturbances and shed new light on the design of superhydrophobic materials with a robust wetting stability.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11632009, and 11872227).
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Lou, J., Shi, S., Ma, C. et al. Suspended penetration wetting state of droplets on microstructured surfaces. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 64, 244711 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-020-1654-4
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