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Nature Materials 3, 79 - 80 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1062

Surface wetting: Model droplets

David Quéré1

  1. David Quéré is at the Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Collège de France, 75005 Paris, France e-mail: david.quere@college-de-france.fr


A non-contact atomic force microscopy technique and a new model offer the solution to an old question. Why are microdroplets more wetting than macrodroplets? The answer lies on the surface.

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