Research context and placement

The abstract supports droplet manipulation, SERS and cellular delivery; droplet adhesion is not tissue adhesion or chip–interconnect joining. Retain integration foundations.

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Research overview and key contributions

Vacuum-induced dimples change adhesion and slope in micropillared PDMS to move, merge and mix droplets.

Local geometry changes enable programmable droplet handling, demonstrated with SERS and cellular siRNA delivery.

Panels show local-dimple droplet manipulation, micropillar SEM, droplet photographs and stretched PDMS.
Figure 1 · Original paper figure

A micropillared PDMS platform uses local dimples to move, merge and analyze droplets, alongside substrate characterization.

Jungmok Seo, Seoung-Ki Lee, Jaehong Lee et al.. “Path-programmable water droplet manipulations on an adhesion controlled superhydrophobic surface”. Figure 1. DOI: 10.1038/srep12326. CC BY 4.0. Public original image copied byte-for-byte, with no resizing, cropping, annotations or re-encoding.

Source figure and caption ↗ · DOI: 10.1038/srep12326 ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Open challenges

Editorial question: how do sample composition, volume and residue accumulation affect path repeatability?

Comparison context

Separate droplet volume, viscosity/surface tension, pillar geometry, vacuum settings and analytical/cellular endpoints.

Related external research

Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces with pressure-stable omniphobicity

DOI: 10.1038/nature10447 ↗

Compare SLIPS lubrication with #24’s dry droplet transport.

Lubricant carryover and active path control require different evaluations.

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Corresponding-author verification

Jungmok Seo: not a corresponding author

This record concerns Jungmok Seo’s correspondence designation. Author order or an asterisk alone is not treated as confirmation; this check is separate from verification of the research content.

  • Correspondence evidence source ↗

    Jong-Hyun Ahn: xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c1"; Taeyoon Lee: xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c2"; * These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Main-text review scope
Publisher/PMC article license and complete Figure 1 caption actually read; original Figure 1 visually inspected. Selected body context read; not a complete methods/supplement audit.
Supplementary review scope
Not read in this figure/correspondence pass; no complete SI audit claimed.
Pending verification
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COVERAGE & OUTREACH

Coverage and outreach

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Sources and verification scope

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  • Public publication baseline ↗ · #24 · 2026-10-03
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