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Surfing the hot spot

Nature Materials volume 5, pages 429–430 (2006)Cite this article

All we expect when a drop lands on a surface is to see it either spread if the surface is wettable, or sit undeformed if the surface is non-wettable. However, if the surface is hot and is textured with a sawtooth profile, we will gape at a drop springing in self-propelled motion.

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Figure 1: Indeed, it moves.

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