Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 24(11), p. 14562-14567, 2021
DOI: 10.1039/d1ra02688g
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Unlike rigid microparticles, deformable elastomer microspheres were found to exhibit a non-close-packed arrangement on solid substrates after evaporating water from their dispersions. The underlying mechanism of their unique ordering is discussed.