Drop mobility on chemically heterogeneous and lubricant-impregnated surfaces

G Mistura, M Pierno - Advances in Physics: X, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Controlling the motion of liquid drops in contact with a solid surface has broad technological
implications in many different areas ranging from textiles to microfluidics and heat …

How to identify dislocations in molecular dynamics simulations?

D Li, FC Wang, ZY Yang, YP Zhao - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2014 - Springer
Dislocations are of great importance in revealing the underlying mechanisms of deformed
solid crystals. With the development of computational facilities and technologies, the …

Investigation of droplet evaporation on heterogeneous surfaces using a three-dimensional thermal multiphase lattice Boltzmann model

Y Yu, Q Li, CQ Zhou, P Zhou, HJ Yan - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, a three-dimensional thermal multiphase lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is
established to simulate droplet evaporation on heterogeneous surfaces, which employs an …

Dynamics of fluid displacement in mixed-wet porous media

A Scanziani, Q Lin, A Alhosani… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We identify a distinct two-phase flow invasion pattern in a mixed-wet porous medium. Time-
resolved high-resolution synchrotron X-ray imaging is used to study the invasion of water …

Evaporation and wetting behavior of silver-graphene hybrid nanofluid droplet on its porous residue surface for various mixing ratios

FR Siddiqui, CY Tso, SC Fu, HH Qiu… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Droplet evaporation offers high heat rejection rates and is widely used in the form of spray
cooling or dropwise cooling of various heat dissipating devices. However, due to the limiting …

Droplet drying patterns on solid substrates: from hydrophilic to superhydrophobic contact to levitating drops

S Tarafdar, YY Tarasevich… - … in Condensed Matter …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This review is devoted to the simple process of drying a multicomponent droplet of a
complex fluid which may contain salt or other inclusions. These processes provide a …

Molecular origin of contact line stick-slip motion during droplet evaporation

FC Wang, HA Wu - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Understanding and controlling the motion of the contact line is of critical importance for
surface science studies as well as many industrial engineering applications. In this work, we …

Effects of surface oxygen vacancies content on wettability of zinc oxide nanorods doped with lanthanum

C Mrabet, N Mahdhi, A Boukhachem, M Amlouk… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work highlights the wettability properties of La–doped ZnO sprayed thin films deposited
on glass substrates at 460° C in terms of oxygen vacancy induced by this doping element …

Pinning of the contact line during evaporation on heterogeneous surfaces: slowdown or temporary immobilization? Insights from a nanoscale study

J Zhang, F Müller-Plathe, F Leroy - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
The question of the effect of surface heterogeneities on the evaporation of liquid droplets
from solid surfaces is addressed through nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations …

Dynamic Oscillation and Motion of Oil‐in‐Water Emulsion Droplets

S Krishna Mani, S Al‐Tooqi, J Song… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The interplay of interfacial tensions on droplets results in a range of self‐powered motions
that mimic those of living systems and serve as a tunable model to understand their complex …