A method for measuring the static
contact angle of a droplet. First, drip water on the surface of a material, and then use a
digital imaging device to take pictures of the droplet on a plane perpendicular to the surface of the material to obtain an image of the droplet, and use an
edge detection operator to measure the droplet. The droplet image is processed to obtain the droplet edge; then the droplet edge
point data is transformed from the Cartesian coordinate
system to the polar coordinate
system, and then the polynomial fitting method is used to fit the droplet edge, and then the droplet edge is transformed from the polar coordinate
system to Cartesian coordinate system, and finally calculate the slope of the droplet edge at the
solid, liquid, and gas three-phase
junction point, and obtain the static
contact angle from the slope. In the present invention, the rectangular coordinate system is converted into the polar coordinate system first, and then the edge of the droplet is fitted. Since the edge of the droplet is closer to a polynomial in the polar coordinate system, the calculation accuracy of the
contact angle is higher, and it is converted into polar coordinates. The number of points involved in fitting the edge after the system is more, and the anti-interference ability is stronger.