Could temperature be a knob for you.  I see curves that show surface tension
of water at 95 C at 60 dynes/cm and 72 dynes/cm at 20 C.

Regards,

Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lin Yu" 
To: "General MEMS discussion" 
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [MEMS-talk] how to make water more polar


> Thank you so much, guys. Sorry, I asked the wrong question.
>
> This is what I'm doing: I prepared two samples with complementary gold
> patterns on top. Then self-assembly monolayers were
> formed on the gold patterns to make certain regions hydrophilic and the
> other regions hydrophobic. After water is dropped on the
> hydrophilic regions, one sample is placed on top of the other one. We kind
> of hope self alignment can happen due to the capillary force of water. But
> it didn't. So we are looking for some other liquid can do this better than
> water.
>