The effect of surface wettability and coalescence dynamics in catalytic performance and catalyst preparation: a review

T Li, J Wang, F Wang, L Zhang, Y Jiang… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The interactions between the reactants and catalysts surfaces play a significant role in
heterogeneous catalysis, thus to tune the interfacial properties between them has emerged …

Molecular dynamics simulations of droplet coalescence and impact dynamics on the modified surfaces: A review

T Li - Computational Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The effective control of droplet coalescence and impact behaviors on solid surfaces plays a
crucial role in various fields, such as material science, environmental science, energy …

Control of wettability transition and coalescence dynamics of droplets on the surface via mechanical vibration: A molecular simulation exploration

T Li, J Li, H Lin, Y Duan, Y Xia, Y Jiang, H Li - Applied Surface Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Controllable wettability of liquids has always been attached great significance to a wide
range of applications in both industrial and technological processes. Here, we report a …

Controllable coalescence dynamics of nanodroplets on textured surfaces decorated with well-designed wrinkled nanostructures: A molecular dynamics study

T Li, L Zhang, H Li - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
The control of coalescence and motion of droplets play a significant role in advanced
technology and our daily life, and one of the most important approaches is surface design …

Molecular dynamics study of electrocoalescence of pure water and salty nanodroplets

L Li, Q Cao, H Liu, X Qiao - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
The mechanisms governing the electrocoalescence between droplets are intricate owing to
the presence of many influential parameters. In this work, we conduct molecular dynamics …

Coalescence of 3D Polymeric Drops in the Presence of In Situ Photopolymerization

VS Sivasankar, SA Etha, DR Hines, S Das - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
We develop a combined numerical (using direct numerical simulation) and scaling model to
study the dynamics of two identical photocurable, shear-thinning polymeric drops …

Effect of curved surfaces on the impacting nano-droplets and their shape control: A molecular dynamics simulation study

T Li, L Zhang, X Zhang, H Li - Applied Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Considerable non-flat solid substrates are widely-existed where liquid drops inevitably
impact on their surfaces, precise control of shape evolution of these impacting drops on such …

Effects of stripy surfaces with intervals on the coalescence dynamics of nano-droplets: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations

T Li, Y Xia, L Zhang, X Zhang, C Fu, Y Jiang… - Applied Surface Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are employed to study the coalescence behaviors of
nano-droplets on the stripy substrates decorated with spaced graphene nanoribbons …

Non-retraction rebound of the impacting nano-droplets

T Li, L Zhang, M Li, M Yan, E Ni, Y Ruan, H Li - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
This study reports a distinct non-retraction rebound regime of impacting nano-droplets that is
characterized by incomplete-spreading and non-retraction, different from the traditional …

Effect of nano-pillared surfaces with an arrangement density gradient on droplet coalescence dynamics

T Li, MY Li, JJ Wang, J Li, YR Duan, H Li - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to predict and control the coalescence of droplets is of great importance for both
industrial and technological applications, including 3D printing, micro-cladding, and self …