ReviewThe European physical journal. E, Soft matter2026
What is active wetting?
Review in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Light-gated electro(de)wetting with photoswitchable amphiphiles.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2026Article
- Interface-dominated sliding compound drops.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2026Article
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Abstract
In recent years, the term active wetting has gained some traction in works describing, analyzing, and modeling a wide variety of wetting phenomena, for instance, in the contexts of biomolecular condensates, of cell layers or cell aggregates, and of active Brownian particles. The present perspective discusses a coarse classification of wetting phenomena that accounts for this. First, different categories of static and dynamic wetting of passive liquids are briefly introduced, in particular, distinguishing equilibrium wetting, relaxational wetting, driven wetting, and reactive wetting. Second, an overview is given of the various phenomena recently described as active wetting. We conclude by discussing a possible definition of active wetting together with a number of caveats that one might want to keep in mind when using such classifications.
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