Controlling Droplet Shapes By Surface Patterning

Controlling Droplet Shapes by Surface Patterning

Tim Atherton's soundbite talk for New England Complex Fluids Group March 2012.

Droplets with complex shapes formed on superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic patterns

For applications see: 1) Micropatterned Superhydrophobic Structures for the Simultaneous Culture of Multiple Cell Types and the ...

Smart Droplet Shaping & Laplace-Driven Flow | Open Microfluidics Meets Precision Dispensing

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Controlling Water Droplets Using Thermal Gradients

From the paper "Manipulation of Spherical

Spontaneous droplet movement on pattern surfaces

13.2 Patterns and Surface Area (Part 2)

Slicing solid three-dimensional figures results in different two-dimensional

Path-programmable water droplet manipulations on an adhesion controlled superhydrophobic surface

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Grasshopper Tutorial: Parametric Pattern Morphing on Any Surface

Learn how to apply your own custom 3D patterns over any

Bouncing Droplets: Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic Surfaces

This video introduces the concept of

Closed-loop ADSA real-time control of a water droplet's surface area

Citation: Yu K, Yang J, and Zuo YY, Automated

Snap evaporation of droplets on smooth topographies

Snap evaporation of

How to Optimise Your Surface Pattern Design Motifs for Print on Demand

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V0068 - Extracting volumes, arbitrary multiple droplet arrays using the Pattern Distortion technique

"Extracting volumes from arbitrary multiple

Hydrophobic Patterns Make Spinning Water Drops

I show you how how I made spinning water

Droplet Splitting on Alternating Wettability Contrast Patterned Surface.

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