Liquid marble formation and solvent vapor treatment of the biodegradable polymers polylactic acid and polycaprolactone

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Funding Acknowledgements

We want to kindly thank the Bio21 institute of Melbourne, Australia, for collaboration in conducting the SEM measurements, the Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, a Special Research Centre of the Australian Research Centre for access to equipment, the Australia-China Joint Research Centre - Healthy Soils for Sustainable Food Production and Environmental Quality (ACSRF48165) and the Australian Resesarch Council Linkage Grant LP160101417. Furthermore we thank Perstorp from Sweden for providing the PCL samples, Micropowders from the United States for providing the PLA samples and Industrial Netting from the United States for providing the PTFE mesh as well as their coworkers for the outstanding cooperation. The author would also like to thank Prof. Kai-Olaf Hinrichsen from the Technical University of Munich for the great mentoring and support.