Microscale Surface Tension and its Applications

Micromachines (Basel). 2019 Aug 9;10(8):526. doi: 10.3390/mi10080526.

Abstract

More than 200 years since the earliest scientific investigations by Young, Laplace and Plateau, liquid surface tension is still the object of thriving fundamental and applied research [...].

Keywords: contact angle; droplets; liquid bridge; microfabrication; micromanipulation; pick-and-place; soft robotics; surface tension; wetting.

Publication types

  • Editorial