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SUBMITTER: Ho TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3182716 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ho Tuan Anh TA Papavassiliou Dimitrios V DV Lee Lloyd L LL Striolo Alberto A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110912 39
Understanding and predicting the behavior of water, especially in contact with various surfaces, is a scientific challenge. Molecular-level understanding of hydrophobic effects and their macroscopic consequences, in particular, is critical to many applications. Macroscopically, a surface is classified as hydrophilic or hydrophobic depending on the contact angle formed by a water droplet. Because hydrophobic surfaces tend to cause water slip whereas hydrophilic ones do not, the former surfaces ca ...[more]