NIMS scientists discovered that droplets on a single non-textured surface can exist in both sticky and repellent states simultaneously, overturning a 200-year-old scientific principle established by Thomas Young in 1805.
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Overturning a 200-year belief: New surface design enables two distinct wetting states on a single substrate
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