The evaporation of a sessile droplet of liquid is a complex and multifaceted fundamental
topic of enduring scientific interest that is key to numerous physical and biological …

Bioinspired water-repellent materials offer a wealth of opportunities to solve scientific and
technological issues. Lotus-leaf and pitcher plants represent two types of antiwetting …

The manner in which the extreme modes of droplet evaporation (namely, the constant
contact radius and the constant contact angle modes) become indistinguishable on strongly …

In this study, evaporation of sessile water droplets on hot micro-structured superhydrophobic
surfaces is experimentally and theoretically investigated. Water droplets of 4 µL are placed …

Hypothesis Contact line movement over laser-textured metal alloy surfaces depends on the
texture, droplet state, inversion of wettability, and liquid flow rate. Experiments Ordered and …

Laser texturing has great potential for controlling wetting properties as well as spreading
dynamics of liquid small volumes on technological metal surfaces. In this work, nanosecond …

Current analytical models for sessile droplet evaporation do not consider the nonuniform
temperature field within the droplet and can overpredict the evaporation by 20%. This …

Evaporation of multi-component drops is crucial to various technologies and has numerous
potential applications because of its ubiquity in nature. Superamphiphobic surfaces, which …

An experimental investigation of the heat and mass transfer to an evaporating hydrophilic
water droplet using thin-foil thermography and droplet shape analysis is reported. These …

The evaporation characteristics of sessile droplets on heated hydrophobic and hydrophilic
surfaces are investigated. Results are reported for the evaporation of water droplet volumes …