Droplet attraction and coalescence mechanism on textured oil-impregnated surfaces

Abstract Droplets residing on textured oil-impregnated surfaces form a wetting ridge due to the imbalance of interfacial forces at the contact line, leading to a wealth of phenomena not seen on traditional lotus-leaf-inspired non-wetting surfaces. Here, we show that the wetting ridge leads to long-r...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Haobo Xu, Yimin Zhou, Dan Daniel, Joshua Herzog, Xiaoguang Wang, Volker Sick, Solomon Adera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40279-w