Not spreading in reverse: the dewetting of a liquid film into a single drop
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 60 - 697651
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1126/sciadv.1600183
- Title of journal
- Science Advances
- Article number
- e1600183
- First page
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- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 2375-2548
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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A - Imaging, Materials and Engineering Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output shows that dewetting is not spreading of a droplet played backwards. Recognised by a Science/AAAS feature video (doi:10.1126/science.aah7352, 16k Facebook views), coverage by 12 news outlets, invited talk at 10th International Meeting on Electrowetting (Taiwan, http://www.electrowetting.org/?p=history) and invited review (doi:10.1016/j.cocis.2017.11.005). The theory was implemented as a state-of-the-art modelling tool by Autotype Ltd’s former Research Director (https://www.stevenabbott.co.uk/practical-coatings/Dewetting.php). The output’s ideas underpinned the award of our “Dynamic Dewetting: Designing and Breaking Novel Morphologies of Liquid Films” (EPSRC: Two Universities EP/R042276/1 and EP/R036837/1, £662k) with industrial partners Huntsman Ltd (Chris Phanopoulos, chris_phanopoulos@huntsman.com) and Reece Innovation Ltd (Simone Stuart-Cole, info@reeceinnovation.com).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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