Investigating the Role of Glass and Quartz Substrates on the Formation of Interfacial Droplets

In our daily life, interface between or multiple interfaces among gas, liquid, and solid are usually involved. In a particular scenario, water/oil/solid interface was studied and we found that water droplets can be spontaneously formed at oil–solid interfaces. Though the underlying mechanism is not fully revealed nowadays, it is known that solid substrates play an important role, especially in driving water molecules to accumulate at the...