Droplet evaporation control has applications in inkjet printing and surface patterning. Here, the authors show that on slippery curved substrates droplets evaporate by slowly retracting and then suddenly snapping, which can be exploited to design surfaces that control an evaporation sequence.
- Gary G. Wells
- Élfego Ruiz-Gutiérrez
- Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar
