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| author | Stricker, L. Grillo, F. Marquez, E. A. Panzarasa, G. Smith-Mannschott, K. Vollmer, J. |
| author_facet | Stricker, L. Grillo, F. Marquez, E. A. Panzarasa, G. Smith-Mannschott, K. Vollmer, J. |
| contents | Droplet condensation on surfaces produces patterns, called breath figures. Their evolution into self-similar structures is a classical example of self-organization. It is described by a scaling theory with scaling functions whose universality has recently been challenged by numerical work. Here, we provide a thorough experimental testing, where we inspect substrates with vastly different chemical properties, stiffness, and condensation rates. We critically survey the size distributions, and the related time-asymptotic scaling of droplet number and surface coverage. In the time-asymptotic regime they admit a data collapse: the data for all substrates and condensation rates lie on universal scaling functions. |
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| spellingShingle | Universality of breath figures on two-dimensional surfaces: an experimental study Stricker, L. Grillo, F. Marquez, E. A. Panzarasa, G. Smith-Mannschott, K. Vollmer, J. Soft Condensed Matter Pattern Formation and Solitons Applied Physics Droplet condensation on surfaces produces patterns, called breath figures. Their evolution into self-similar structures is a classical example of self-organization. It is described by a scaling theory with scaling functions whose universality has recently been challenged by numerical work. Here, we provide a thorough experimental testing, where we inspect substrates with vastly different chemical properties, stiffness, and condensation rates. We critically survey the size distributions, and the related time-asymptotic scaling of droplet number and surface coverage. In the time-asymptotic regime they admit a data collapse: the data for all substrates and condensation rates lie on universal scaling functions. |
| title | Universality of breath figures on two-dimensional surfaces: an experimental study |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Pattern Formation and Solitons Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00691 |