{"id":230208,"date":"2026-01-31T01:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/liquid-repellent-particle-coating-enables-near-frictionless-motion-of-pico-to-nanoliter-droplets"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:21:21","slug":"liquid-repellent-particle-coating-enables-near-frictionless-motion-of-pico-to-nanoliter-droplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/liquid-repellent-particle-coating-enables-near-frictionless-motion-of-pico-to-nanoliter-droplets","title":{"rendered":"Liquid-repellent particle coating enables near-frictionless motion of pico- to nanoliter droplets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-repellent-particle-coating-enables-near-frictionless-motion-of-pico-to-nanoliter-droplets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The precise control of tiny droplets on surfaces is essential for advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and next\u2010generation lab\u2010on\u2010a\u2010chip diagnostics. However, once droplet volume reaches pico- and nanoliter scales, the droplets become extremely sensitive to microscopic surface irregularities, and friction at the solid\u2010liquid interface becomes a major obstacle to smooth transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The precise control of tiny droplets on surfaces is essential for advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and next\u2010generation lab\u2010on\u2010a\u2010chip diagnostics. However, once droplet volume reaches pico- and nanoliter scales, the droplets become extremely sensitive to microscopic surface irregularities, and friction at the solid\u2010liquid interface becomes a major obstacle to smooth transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}