Sharma, C.S.; Milionis, A.; Naga, A.; Lam, C.W.E.; Rodriguez, G.; Del Ponte, M.F.; Negri, V.; Raoul, H.; D'Acunzi, M.; Butt, H.-J.; Vollmer, D.; Poulikakos, D.
(2022-05-31)
Soft substrates enhance droplet nucleation during water vapor condensation because their deformability inherently reduces the energetic threshold for heterogeneous nucleation relative to rigid substrates. However, this ...