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Directional wetting on limited sectors of surfaces is achieved on partially wetting microstructured surfaces by placing nonsymmetrical microstructures in a regular rectangular lattice. Droplet spreading to a 90° sector is possible when the microstructures are designed to present broad features towards the right and top and sharp features towards the left and bottom (see image).
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Jokinen et al. (2009) studied this question.
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