Movie S1.

Video of a water droplet spreading quickly on a surface of connected, re-entrant cavities. The droplet reaches an unmeasurably low contact angle (< 5°) within 1 s of deposition due to rapid cavity filling. The blurry particulates on the surface (left of the droplet) were not within the droplet contact area.

Rates of cavity filling by liquids

Dongjin Seo, Alex M. Schrader, Szu-Ying Chen, Yair Kaufman, Thomas R. Cristiani, Steven H. Page, Peter H. Koenig, Yonas Gizaw, Dong Woog Lee, and Jacob N. Israelachvili

PNAS. 2018. 115:8070-8075 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1804437115