Excellent Drop Shape Analysis Based Interfacial Chemistry Measurement System

Specifications Drop Shape Analysis Based Interfacial Chemistry Measurement System

4 generation ADSA

Parallel light&telecentric lens

C60 is drop shape analysis based system which focuses on measuring interfacial chemical properties. It can be used to analyze interfacial chemical characterizations like surface tension and its contributions (dispersive force, polar force), interface tension, surface free energy of solid and its contributions (dispersive force, polar force, hydrogen bond force, Lewis acid & base and more), interface rheology, interfacial viscosity, adhesive work, wetting line, wetting behavior via analysis of drop shape or lamella profile of drop / bubble that shaped on interface of liquid-gas, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid or liquid-liquid-solid. It also can be used to characterize / analyze / predict / describe various vital physical chemical properties, such as spreading, wettability, adhesion, absorption, competition, sedimentation, penetration, biocompatibility, foaming, solubilization and surface heterogeneity, as well as research of new material (super hydrophobic / hydrophilic material simulation), QC (analysis of surface cleanness). Optimized Mechanics and Control System: More Professional, Stable, More Accurate, and Easier to Control1, More Professional → USA KINO uniquely has deeply researched in precision positioning stage and applied it into interfacial chemistry analytical system; → More professional knowledge and abilities: Instruments from USA KINO have obvious advantages because our more professional knowledge, R&D capacity and product quality are comparable to others in the industry from US and European. We guarantee profession, stable and convenience in mechanical control. 2, Integral design with more compact and optimized → Optimized integral design: The mechanics are optimized by our practiced engineer in terms of precision optical vision system, which effectively improves mechanical compatibility without any structures complicated or appearance uglified. → Better coordinated mechanics: Uniquely-designed mechanism of up to 10 axis control (6-axis linear adjustments +1 rotation adjustment + 3 horizontal adjustments), to coordinate the operation of sample stage, lens, camera, dosing system and vision system. → Integrate designed instrument with mainframe made of high-grade aviation aluminum guarantees its handiness and fastness. 3, More accurate, stable and diversified mechanics and control system → More professional control mechanics for dynamic contact angle (roll off angle) -Professional design of rotary positioning stage without backlash guarantees stable operation and accurate angle control with its accuracy of up to 0.1 ° by manual and 0.01° by software control as well as resolution of up to 0.0001°. -Integral rotation system controlled by rotary positioning stage, enabling sample stage to rotate with lens in order to hold drop image in field of view during capture process. The unique design makes accurate analysis of roll off contact angle possible without hard operation and bad precision when rolling the entire instrument, as well as avoiding drop disappearing from the field of view when partially rotating. -Besides, just a simple switch can enable of sample stage rotating only. (Manual and electronic tilting base for option). → Mechanics with accurate level and lens tilted angle adjustment -System with four level adjustment units: -Except one complete machine level adjustment via quadrupled tuning knob and one precision tilting angle adjustment of lens and camera via 1 axis tilt platform stage with micrometer, we provide one multi-axis tilt platform with micrometer to adjust the level of sample stage and one zero-backlash rotary stage to roll the sample stage in addition. All these guarantee the accuracy of base line detection and the measurement of roll-off contact angle. -Micrometer used in our multi-axis tilt platform can effectively improve accuracy of adjustment angle of level; C60 uses high-precision one-axis tilt platform to adjust tilted angles of lens and light source, which improved adjustment accuracy of angle via high-resolution micrometer. -Adjustment both by hardware and software with better base line detection. The level adjusting mechanism, illumination-adjustable LED cold light source as well as CAST 3.0 software system provide you strong assurance of better base lines detection, and more convenient for measuring roll-off angle and advancing / receding contact angle..  Optical Vision System-Clearer, Higher Speed and More Professional1, Unique high-precision telecentric lens → Continuous 6.5-fold zoom lens, magnification range: 0.75X-4.5X → Clearer and sharper drop profile and smaller diameter of spot size → Larger depth of field, low TV distortion, high resolution → Image magnification does not change as object distance varies → Low distortion: <0.01% (Full screen) → Viewing and displaying the entire drop shape from the same prospective angle with no projection for vertical imaging 2, Unique parallel background light → Clearer and sharper drop profile → Better for shape edge detection with a sub-pixel accuracy → More accurate geometric dimension of drop shape → Continuously adjustable lumination LED cold background light source, guaranteeing longer life and avoiding volatilization of little droplet caused by extra heat in measuring process → More homogeneous background light and clearer imaging → Short wavelength light is especially suitable for imaging of liquid drop

Contour lens	General industrial lens

  3, High definition and higher speed vision imaging system → High speed camera with speed of 87FPS ( WVGA format)-340FPS(GIF format); → UV filter technology is better for improving sharpness of imaging for drop shape; → Optional with various cameras: HD, high-speed (10, 000FPS) and more → USB2.0 as standard configuration effectively enhances compatibility of integral system;   Dosing System of Higher Accuracy and More Convenient to Control1, Direct syringe pump with higher precision and more accurate quantity → Professional high-precision syringe pump with accuracy of droplet control down to 0.002uL, which can be applied to high-precision repetitive sample dosing. → Direct-type design facilitates cleaning and changing of sample tube without cross contamination; → Precision screw and linear guide enable higher accuracy of positioning control; 2, Optional with diversified dosing system → Syringe pump with tee-junction dosing system is optional available and it can be easily upgraded to multi-channel pump (up to 8 channels). → Ultra micro volume dosing system of 10nL, 5pL, 15pL, 800pL and more are optional available for measurement of single fiber contact angle and contact angle of um size sample in industries of semiconductor, chip and semi-electronic. 3, Various syringes and needles to meet different requirements → Different volume syringes such as 25μL,100μL,500μL,1000μL……), different material (plastic, glass) → Needles of different size (10-34#) , different materials (stainless, PTFE , PP)   World Leading, More Powerful, Automatic and Ergonomic Analytical Software- CAST®3.01, RealDropTM method based on ADSA → Wider fields of applications It can be used to measure surface / interface tension and contact angle by sessile drop and captive bubble as well as surface / interface tension of liquid-gas / liquid-liquid by pendant drop. → Higher measurement accuracy RealDropTM method is quite different from select plane based Young-Laplace equation fitting method, which adopts AFLI and 4th generation RealDropTM technology and achieves higher measurement accuracy without any experience calibration value. → Unique interface tension measuring system of liquid-gas / liquid-liquid with Young-Laplace equation fitting method based on Bashford-Adams table, ADSATM(Runge-Kutta arithmetic and RealdropTM method) and capillary pressure method. It can be used for surface tension measurement of medium-high viscosity sample, dynamic surface / interface tension measurement of surfactant, and oscillating drop measurement. 2, Powerful analytical functions → Six drop shape states for analysis: sessile drop (liquid/gas, liquid/liquid/gas), pendant drop, captive drop, tilted plate and oscillated drop → Seven methods to calculate contact angle and nearly 20 kinds of curve-fitting technologies: - Exclusive methods of θ/2, circle fitting, ellipse fitting, RealDropTM, spline curve-fitting, Young-Laplace equation fitting, curve ruler (tangent method); - Dynamic / static contact angle measurement - 20 exclusive curve ruler methods, such as circle, spline, Gaussian and Power, enable you to analyse:     Advancing/receding contact angles     Irregular angles → Twelve surface free energy calculating models, providing you more options to estimate surface free energy and its distributions. Exclusively provided 12 methods for estimating surface free energy, e.g. Equation of State (Neumann et al.), Good-Girifalco, Owen-Wendt-Rabel, Simple Fowkes, Extended Fowkes, WU method 1-2, Schultz method 1-2, Acid-base (Van OSS & Good), Jhu, and Zizman Plot (critical surface tension) method, can be used to measure free energy and its distribution (dispersive force, polar force and hydrogen bond value, and Lewis acid-base, etc.) of low / high energy solid surface. → Unique technology of wetting behavior analysis (WBA / wetting envelopes). A 2D map of wetting envelope can be constructed by using the components of surface free energy and corresponding method (such as OWEN), and a plot produces to show how wettability occurs. It is another way of understanding contact angle, hence degree of wetting, arise from an understanding of the force existing in the material and between the materials. → Unique video recording function. Measurement process can be recorded into AVI format for later use. Various and Fully Functional Software Modules for Drop Shape Based Interface Chemistry AnalysisCAST®3.0 consists of different software modules →SM01: contact angle measurement module (ADSA-SD) SM01 is main module of CAST®3.0 with functions of image capture, image recognition and processing with a sub-pixel accuracy, curve fitting, database management, which can be used to measure surface / interface tension and contact angle by sessile drop and captive bubble as well as advancing / receding contact angle / roll off angle / equilibrium contact angle / thermodynamics contact angle. →Sm02: measurement of surface/interface tension by pendant drop(ADSA-PD) Young-Laplace equation fitting based ADSA module for measurement of surface / interface tension; fitting methods: Bashford-Adams (BA) table and RealdropTM; Optional with Select plane method based Young-Laplace fitting technology (Andreas-Princeton, Springer, Huh, Lin, Hansen); measurement of surface tension (SE) of liquid and its contributions (dispersive force, polar force, hydrogen bond value and more) in terms of liquid-liquid interface tension. →SM03: analysis of surface free energy and wettability (SFE&WBA) SM03 is designed to evaluate surface free energy and analyze wetting behavior and wetting envelopes of solid   Specifications

			C601		C602
Appearance
Subject			Standard image analytical system		Professional image analytical system
Hardware Specifications	Sample Stage control	X-Axis	Manual, travel:100mm, accuracy 0.01mm; Max. travel 300mm for option		Automatic, travel:100mm, accuracy 0.01mm; Max. travel 300mm for option
		Y-Axis
		Z-Axis	Manual, travel: 50mm; accuracy: 0.01mm
		Rotation	manual Integral rotary mechanism in which lens rotates with sample stage for advancing /receding/ roll-off contact angle measurement		automatic Integral rotary mechanism in which lens rotates with sample stage for advancing/receding/roll-off contact angle measurement
			Optional with rotated stage with internal rotation
		Level Adjustment	Level adjustment of sample stage used manual fine tuning knob, whole instrument level adjustment and camera lens tilting unit
		Sample Stage Size	100*100mm			100*100mm
		Max Sample Size	300(W)*∞(L)*100(H)mm			300(W)*∞(L)*100(H)mm
	Other control	Dosing Control	X,Y-Axis movable, travel: 12.5mm; accuracy: 0.01mm for adjusting the droplet position and focal distance
		Dosing Control(Z)	Automatic, travel: 12.5 mm, accuracy 0.01mm; For drop transferring
		Tilting of Camera lens	One-dimensional tilting unit with micrometer and locking function
	Dosing System	Types	Automatic direct syringe pump
		Accuracy	0.001mm 2nL(0.002uL)
		Drop Transferring	Automatically –controlled
		Needle	Disposable needles, including 0.24, 0.3, 0.5, 0.9,2mm OD stainless steel needles, 0.2 OD needles as well as PTFE needles, etc., especially for measuring contact angles of super-hydrophobic materials or contact angles between glue and solid materials.
	Optical Vision System	Lens	6-fold zoom telecentric lens ( 0.37-4.5-fold magnification);distortion rate(Optical distortion):0.01%;field of vision(FOV):0.80*1.07-10.14*13.52;NA : 0.03-0.085(4.5X);
		Camera	Industrial mono video camera, USB 2.0 port, Resolution: 752*480 (standard WVGA format); Image speed: -87(Full Screen)-600(752*60) FPS,FOV:1.33-17.14mm; UV optical filter Cameras with higher resolutions of 130M,300M,500M are available
		Background Light System	Illumination-adjustable monochromatic LED cold parallel background light with clearer image shape of drop shape
Software	SM01:Contact Angle Measurement Module(ADSA-SD)		5 kinds of drop shape states:	Pendant Drop, Sessile Drop (liquid/gas, liquid/liquid/gas), Captive Drop, Tilted Plate, and Oscillating Drop.
			7 methods to calculate contact angles:	θ/2 (WH), circle fitting , ellipse fitting , RealDrop™ , curve ruler (tangent fitting ), Spline curve-fitting , and Young-Laplace equation fitting (ADSA™), etc.
			Data acquisition: Combination of both full-automatic measurement and manual modification. Just press “Measure”, the software will complete the whole process of capture, finding edge, finding sensitive spots, fitting curves, calculating contact angle values, and displaying calculation results without manual participation so as to reduce the effect of human factors.
			Contact angle measuring technology: mathematical model fitting and real-drop contour measurement solves the problem of measurement of asymmetric drop shape or drop without apex.
			Automatic curve base line correction: Correction of upper convex sample surface, lower concave surface, or roughness of surface.
			Auto detection of base line
			Measurement of static/dynamic contact angle includes measurement of advancing/receding contact angle/tilt angle/roll off angle/equilibrium contact angle/thermodynamics intrinsic contact angle
			Unique dual-software triggering technology: Measurement of first-time-point contact angle for analyzing powder, paper and other hygroscopic materials; whole-process capture of small contact angle measurement.
			Calculation and comparison of left and right contact angle and their average values.
			Automatically generated data graph: Real-time observation of contact angle changes.
			Powerful database management: one-to-one correspondence of data and drop images; backup, compression, and exporting to Excel files; measured values and curve-fitting results can all be saved into exported image, visually and clearly.
			Video recording: recording live images in AVI format and also for PPT file.
			Automatic calculation of droplet volume, adhesive work and Equation of State based surface free energy for measurement of surface tension of films, to replace Dyne test pens.
	SM02 Measurement of Surface/Interface Tension by Pendant Drop(ADSA-PD)		Analysis of surface tension on liquid-gas/liquid-liquid by RealDrop™ based Young-Laplace equation
			Young - Laplace equation fitting method based ADSA module for measurement of surface/interface tension
			Fitting methods: Bashford-Adams(BA)table and Realdrop
			Auto measurement of time dependence interface tension with pendant drop method
	SM03 Analysis of Surface Free Energy and Wettability(SFE&WBA )		12 evaluation models for surface free energy Exclusively providing 12 methods for calculating surface free energy, e.g. Equation of State (Neumann et al.), Good-Girifalco, Owen-Wendt-Rabel, Simple Fowkes, Extended Fowkes, WU method 1-2, Schultz method 1-2, Acid-base (Van OSS & Good), Jhu, and Zizman Plot (critical surface tension) method, for measurement of surface free energy and its distribution (dispersive force, polar force and hydrogen bond value, and Lewis acid-base, etc.) of low/high free energy solid.
			Wetting Behavior Analysis / wetting envelopes
			300 kinds of liquid with 800 data
General Specifications	Measuring Range of Contact Angles		0°<θ<180°
	Resolution		0.01°
	Accuracy		±1 (θ/2 method) ±0.1° circle fitting method
	Measuring Range of Interface Tension		0.001-2000mN/m
	Measuring Resolution of Interface Tension		0.001mN/m
	Measuring Methods of Interface Tension		Bashford-Adams(BA)table(select plane),Young-Laplace fitting (4th generation)
	Dimension and Weight		350Wx800Lx600Hmm 35kg
	Power Supply		AC100~240V 50/60HZ