Category: Liquid-Gas Interface
Traditionally Nonwetting Surface Made to Wet Mercury
Liquid-Gas Interface, Research
We present a surface-engineering approach that turns all liquids highly wetting, including ultra-high surface tension fluids such as mercury.
Transport-Based Modeling of Nucleation on Electrodes
Liquid-Gas Interface, Research
Fundamental understanding of the nucleation process, which is critical to system optimization, remains limited as prior works generally focused on the thermodynamics and have not considered the coupling between surface geometries and different forms of transport in the electrolytes.
Coexistence of Contact Line Pinning and Depinning
Liquid-Gas Interface, Research
Textured surfaces are instrumental in water repellency or fluid wicking applications, where the pinning and depinning of the liquid–gas interface plays an important role. We demonstrate that a contact line can exhibit nonuniform behavior even without varying the local energy barrier.