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SUBMITTER: Wells GG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5895805 | biostudies-other | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Wells Gary G GG Ruiz-Gutiérrez Élfego É Le Lirzin Youen Y Nourry Anthony A Orme Bethany V BV Pradas Marc M Ledesma-Aguilar Rodrigo R
Nature communications 20180411 1
Droplet evaporation on solid surfaces is important in many applications including printing, micro-patterning and cooling. While seemingly simple, the configuration of evaporating droplets on solids is difficult to predict and control. This is because evaporation typically proceeds as a "stick-slip" sequence-a combination of pinning and de-pinning events dominated by static friction or "pinning", caused by microscopic surface roughness. Here we show how smooth, pinning-free, solid surfaces of non ...[more]