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EPL
Volume 88, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/88/26002
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ( DFG) [Va205/3-2, Va205/3-3]
- ICAMS
- state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- European Union
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Liquid droplets on patterned hydrophobic substrates are typically observed either in the Wenzel or the Cassie state. Here we show that for droplets of comparable size to the roughness scale an additional local equilibrium state exists, where the droplet is immersed in the texture, but not yet contacts the bottom grooves. Upon evaporation, a droplet in this state enters the Cassie state, opening the possibility of a qualitatively new self-cleaning mechanism. The effect is of generic character and is expected to occur in any hydrophobic capillary wetting situation where a spherical liquid reservoir is involved. Copyright (c) EPLA, 2009
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