Capillary imbibition, such as plant roots taking up water, reservoir rocks absorbing brine and
a tissue paper wiping stains, is pervasive occurred in nature, engineering and industrial …

Interest in wetting dynamics processes has immensely increased during the past 10–15
years. In many industrial and medical applications, some strategies to control drop …

Imbibition has been proposed as an important means by which to recover oil from low
permeability reservoirs. However, the mechanism of imbibition enhanced oil recovery …

Pore wetting is an important failure mechanism unique to membrane distillation (MD). The
existing approach of wetting detection based on distillate conductivity works only when a …

A novel inorganic consolidant has recently been proposed for the treatment of carbonate
stones used in architectural and cultural heritage. The consolidant is an aqueous solution of …

Purpose: To compare ocular pharmacokinetics (PK), systemic absorption, and injectability of
triamcinolone acetonide (TA) suprachoroidal (SC) and intravitreal (IVT) suspensions …

Biochar wettability and ability to accumulate moisture inside the porous space are crucial for
improving soil fertility, regulating soil water balance, and regulating nutrients. However, a …

Marangoni-driven spreading at gas-liquid interfaces has been studied extensively over the
past years but so far the spreading kinetics along the interface between immiscible liquids …

Ethyl silicate (TEOS) is nowadays the most widely used consolidant for stone, due to its
efficacy on silicate stones and also on limestones containing small amounts of quartz …

There is a growing interest in synthetic, chemical systems capable of undergoing
autonomous shape changes and/or self-motion.[1] Important examples include solid objects …