- Quality assurance of activation processes such as plasma treatment, flame treatment, or corona treatment
- Checking wettability of plastics, glass, ceramics, wood, paper, or metal
- Testing the effectiveness of hydrophobic coatings and other coatings
- Analyzing coating liquids and adhesives and assessing their adhesion
- Assessing long-term stability of coatings
- Analyzing (super-) hydrophobic and self-cleaning surfaces
- Wetting analysis at controlled temperature and/or humidity
MEASURING METHODS
- Contact angle of a drop on a solid surface
- Contact angles of two drops dosed in parallel
- Contact angle using a gas bubble beneath a solid surface in a liquid
- Roll-off behavior and advancing/receding contact angle of a drop on a tilted surface
- Surface free energy of a solid using contact angle data
- Surface or interfacial tension using the curvature of a drop or bubble at the tip of a needle
- Surface tension using the curvature of a perfectly symmetrical drop on a circular sample pedestal
- Calculating adhesion-related scientific parameters for the interfacial contact
- Calculating the polar and disperse part of the surface tension from contact angle and surface tension data
- Carrying out a measurement up to 20 consecutive times and displaying the results together
MEASURING RESULTS
- Static contact angle
- Advancing and receding contact angle
- Contact angle using a bubble in a liquid
- Roll-off angle
- Surface free energy (SFE) according to the following models: Owens-Wendt-Rabel-Kaelble (OWRK), Fowkes, Wu, Zisman, Equation of State
- Surface tension of a liquid and interfacial tension between two liquids
- Work of adhesion, solid/liquid interfacial tension, spreading coefficient
- Temperature
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