Critical contact angle of a bouncing droplet

SR Gao, JX Jin, SH Shi, BJ Wei, YF Wang, SF Zheng… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Bouncing droplets on solid surfaces is of great significance in diversified applications such
as anti-icing and self-cleaning. It is important to establish a unified model to predict whether …

Droplet impinging on sparse micropillar-arrayed non-wetting surfaces

J Wu, L Zhang, Y Lu, Y Yu - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Wettability of droplets and droplet impinging on sparse micropillar-arrayed
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surfaces were experimentally investigated. For droplets …

Velocity‐Switched Droplet Rebound Direction on Anisotropic Superhydrophobic Surfaces

P Li, F Zhan, L Wang - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet well‐controlled directional motion being an essential function has attracted much
interest in academic and industrial applications, such as self‐cleaning, micro‐/nano‐electro …

Water droplet impact dynamics comparison on solid and hollow square micropillared substrates

MK Yadav, ND Patil - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally investigate microliter-sized water droplet impact on solid and hollow
square micropillared polydimethylsiloxane substrates. Micropillared substrates with different …

Impact force and pressure distribution of droplets impacting non-wetting surfaces

K Fang, B Xiang, R Song, J Chen, X Feng, ZS Mao… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Non-wetting surfaces have been extensively applied and studied due to their distinctive
droplet impact dynamics. However, there is still a lack of studies on the droplet impact force …

Double Droplets Impact an Inclined Superhydrophobic Surface

SR Gao, XY Huang, Z Liu, JJ Sun, YR Yang, XD Wang - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
The rebound dynamics of double droplets impacting an inclined superhydrophobic surface
decorated with macro-ridges are investigated via lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) …

Impact of Droplets on Surfaces Designed with Wettability-Gradient Properties: Directional Migration, Oblique Rebound, and Reduced Contact Time

T Li, S Liang, Z Li, J Bi, H Li - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Efficiently regulating the rebound behavior of droplets post-impact is crucial for various
fields, mainly including the development of self-cleaning applications, the design of surface …

Rebound of Oscillating Droplets on Non-superhydrophobic Surfaces

L Yang, X Liu, T Yang, P Zhang - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
Oscillating droplets rebounding completely from non-superhydrophobic surfaces
(polydimethylsiloxane, PDMS) were experimentally studied and theoretically interpreted …

Vibration-Induced Pancake Bouncing of Impacting Droplets on Hydrophobic Surfaces

H Ren, X Hu, J Wang, NN Li, L Chen - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Rapid detachment of impacting droplets from solid surfaces is fundamentally interesting and
important in many practical applications, including self-cleaning, anti-icing, and energy …

Parallel governing criteria for non-Newtonian droplet rebound suppression on superhydrophobic surfaces

K Kamaluddin, GC Pal, P Dhar, CS Sharma… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-Newtonian droplets are known to suppress rebound on superhydrophobic (SH)
surfaces. Our previous work (Dhar et al., Phys Rev Fluids, 2019, vol 4 [1]) showed that the …