Surface tension behavior of superspreading and non-superspreading trisiloxane surfactants

Smoothing of contact lines in spreading droplets by trisiloxane surfactants and its relevance for superspreading.

Superspreading, the greatly enhanced spreading of aqueous solutions of trisiloxane surfactants on hydrophobic substrates, is of great interest in fundamental physics and technical applications. Despite numerous studies in the last 20 years, the superspreading mechanism is still not well understood, largely because the molecular scale cannot be resolved appropriately either experimentally or usi...

Ebola superspreading.

Superspreading SARS Events, Beijing, 2003

Superspreading events were pivotal in the global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). We investigated superspreading in one transmission chain early in Beijing's epidemic. Superspreading was defined as transmission of SARS to at least eight contacts. An index patient with onset of SARS 2 months after hospital admission was the source of four generations of transmission to 76 case...

Critical wetting concentrations of trisiloxane surfactants

Trisiloxane surfactants also known as “superspreaders” are characterized by a critical wetting concentration (CWC) which has been determined by Svitova et al (Langmuir. 1998. 14, 50235031). CWC is a concentration above which a transition from partial wetting to complete wetting occurs at spreading over moderately hydrophobic surfaces, hence, the CWC is associated with the beginning of the super...

Superspreading and the impact of individual variation on disease emergence

Supplementary Table 1 A summary of results from our statistical analysis of uncontrolled outbreaks, corresponding to the results shown in Figure 1a-c of the main article. Supplementary Table 2 Detailed results from our statistical analysis of uncontrolled outbreaks (elaborating on the summary shown in Supplementary Table 1), and from the analysis of data from four outbreaks before and after con...