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Chem Chronicles: A Look Back on 80 years of Thin-Film Evaporation

| By Christian Eickhoff, Buss-SMS-Canzler

Eighty years ago, in 1944, Dr. Hans Müller from Winterthur, Switzerland filed a patent application for a device designed to process liquid substances at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property in Bern. Liquids prone to fouling on heated…