date:Jun 09, 2014
complex and have, hitherto, been poorly understood.
Successful dissolution of a powder is dependent on the physical and chemical nature of both the substrate and the solvent. In the current study, the scientists examined the contact between a droplet of water and a thin layer of a long chain sugar, coated on a smooth surface. The various sugars used in the study were non-crystalline amorphous sugars that lack an organised molecular structure and as such, can easily undergo a change of state.