We review our 2006− 2009 publications on wetting and superhydrophobicity in a manner
designed to serve as a useful primer for those who would like to use the concepts of this …

We respond to a recent report in this journal that criticizes our experiments, which disproved
the Wenzel and Cassie theories. The criticism is that we measured contact angles “with …

Wetting transitions and their closely related cousins of capillary condensation and filling are
found all around us. This article provides an overview of the key ideas and issues related to …

We study wetting and filling of patterned surfaces by a nematic liquid crystal. We focus on
three important classes of periodic surfaces: triangular, sinusoidal and rectangular. The …

In this paper we present a fractal Berreman's model which account for azimuthal surface
anchoring of nematic liquid crystals which play a leading role nowadays in biomedical field …

We characterize the elastic contribution to the surface free energy of a nematic liquid crystal
in the presence of a sawtooth substrate. Our findings are based on numerical minimization …

In this paper we revisit the problem of a nematic liquid crystal in contact with patterned
substrates. The substrate is modelled as a periodic array of parallel infinite grooves of well …

We investigate nematic wetting and filling transitions of crenellated surfaces (rectangular
gratings) by numerical minimization of the Landau–de Gennes free energy as a function of …

We present grand canonical ensemble Monte Carlo simulations of prewetting transitions in a
model liquid crystal at structureless solid substrates. Molecules of the liquid crystal interact …

The interface of a cholesteric liquid crystal with an isotropic fluid can display a range of
unusual properties, such as a layer of topological defects close to an undulated interface …