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posted on 2018-07-12, 13:25 authored by Khai S. LeeWetting and de-wetting processes play an important role in many natural and
technological processes. In many cases, wetting is an essential prerequisite for
application, for example in paint films, crop sprays, cosmetics, pharmaceutical tablets
and in preparation of suspensions. Both equilibrium and dynamic processes of wetting
are important in coatings. In many industrial and medical applications, some strategies
to control drop-spreading on solid surfaces are being developed. One possibility is that a
surfactant, a surface-active polymer, a polyelectrolyte or their mixture are added to a
liquid (usually water). Recently discovered trisiloxane and other silicone-based surfactants show very unusual
behaviour. [Continues.]
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