Wetting transitions in droplet drying on soft materials

Julia Gerber; Tobias Lendenmann; Hadi Eghlidi; Thomas M. Schutzius; Dimos Poulikakos

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12093-w

Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Wetting transitions in droplet drying on soft materials

Julia Gerber,
Tobias Lendenmann,
Hadi Eghlidi,
Thomas M. Schutzius,
Dimos Poulikakos

Affiliations

Julia Gerber: Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
Tobias Lendenmann: Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
Hadi Eghlidi: Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
Thomas M. Schutzius: Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
Dimos Poulikakos: Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12093-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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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 properties.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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