Wetting transitions in droplet drying on soft materials

It has been shown previously that substrate viscoelasticity affects surface wettability. Here the authors observe a wetting transition during drying of droplets on such substrates and elucidate it with high resolution force field measurements thereby determining its dependence on substrate propertie...

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Main Authors: Julia Gerber, Tobias Lendenmann, Hadi Eghlidi, Thomas M. Schutzius, Dimos Poulikakos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12093-w