Paper published
Droplets race to the finish: Katrina’s work demonstrating anisotropic wetting on soft, stretched substrates has just been published in Physical Review Letters.
Anisotropic wetting is typically achieved, both in nature and the lab, via involved topographical or chemical patterning of surfaces. This work demonstrates that anisotropic wetting can be achieved with a much simpler system: a flat, soft, stretched substrate. The resulting anisotropy has a marked effect on both the static and dynamic wetting behavior of droplets on these substrates.
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