Without surfactants, a drop ... In liquid soaps and detergents, surfactants form a thin layer over substances such as dirt ...

Researchers in the U.S. have discovered a self-sustaining material that uses capillary condensation to harvest water from the ...

By coating an ordinary glass slide with specially prepared polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic, the researchers were able to create a hydrophobic surface ... power of this liquid lens with minimal ...

The project used a glass slide as a substrate, but enhanced the surface's hydrophobic nature by coating it with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic. By then adding or removing water from the droplet on ...

Filipino scientists developed affordable and dynamically adjustable water-based lenses with various potential future applications, including in ...

IT has long been recognized that under certain conditions some sort of axisymmetric flow is induced within liquid drops as they pass through a viscous medium. The factors which promote and inhibit ...