Suppressing the Rebound of Impacting Droplets from Solvophobic Surfaces by Polymer Additives: Polymer Adsorption and Molecular Mechanisms

Eunsang Lee, Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Florian Müller-Plathe

A liquid droplet impacting on a solvophobic surface normally rebounds. The rebound is suppressed by a small amount of dissolved polymer. In this work, using multi-body dissipative…