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344 citations · 818 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Regular and Anomalous Motion of Individual Magnetic Quincke Rollers Under Rotating Magnetic Field

Zoran M. Cenev, Ville S. I. Havu, Jaakko V. I. Timonen

We report the motion of individual magnetic Quincke rollers composed of silica particles doped with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles, whose activity arises from the coupl…

cond-mat.soft2025

Unlocking the full potential of jumping condensation on microstructured surfaces

Mariia S. Kiseleva, Tytti Karki, Mika Latikka +11

Water condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces can generate spontaneous droplet jumping, enabling rapid condensate removal and improved thermal and mass transfer. Although this ef…

physics.bio-ph2025

Living Capillary Bridges

Tytti Kärki, Senna Luntama, Yasamin Modabber +5

Biological tissues exhibit complex behaviors with their dynamics often resembling inert soft matter such as liquids, polymers, colloids, and liquid crystals. These analogies enable…

cond-mat.soft2025

Active Rosensweig Patterns

Carlo Rigoni, Max Philipp Holl, Alberto Scacchi +5

Ferrofluids, colloidal dispersions of magnetic nanoparticles, are renowned for pattern formation like few other materials. The Rosensweig instability of a horizontal ferrofluid-air…

cond-mat.soft2024

Magnetically tunable electrokinetic instability and structuring of non-equilibrium nanoparticle gradients

Fereshteh Sohrabi, Carlo Rigoni, Tomy Cherian +2

Inspired by emergent behaviors of living matter, there is increasing interest in developing approaches to create dynamic patterns and structures in synthetic materials with control…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Quasi-Two-Dimensional Drops

Tytti Kärki, Into Pääkkönen, Nikos Kyriakopoulos +1

Liquid drops are everywhere around us and important in numerous technological applications. Here, we demonstrate a quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) analogy to the regular, often close t…

cond-mat.soft2023

A Coarse-grained Model for Aqueous Two-phase Systems: Application to Ferrofluids

Alberto Scacchi, Carlo Rigoni, Mikko Haataja +2

Aqueous two-phase systems (ATPSs), that is, phase-separating solutions of water soluble but mutually immiscible molecular species, offer fascinating prospects for selective partiti…

cond-mat.soft2023

Magnetic control of orientational order and intrinsic hydrodynamic instability in bacterial turbulence

Kazusa Beppu, Jaakko V. I. Timonen

Highly concentrated active agents tend to exhibit turbulent flows, reminiscent of classical hydrodynamic turbulence, which has attracted considerable attention lately. Controlling…

cs.RO2021★ 20 cited

Ferrofluidic Manipulator: Automatic Manipulation of Non-magnetic Microparticles at Air-Ferrofluid Interface

Zoran Cenev, P. A. Diluka Harischandra, Seppo Nurmi +5

Manipulation of small-scale matter is a fundamental topic in micro- and nanorobotics. Numerous magnetic robotic systems have been developed for the manipulation of microparticles i…

cond-mat.soft2020

Ferrofluidic aqueous two-phase system with ultralow interfacial tension, instabilities and pattern formation

Carlo Rigoni, Bent Harnist, Grégory Beaune +1

Ferrofluids are strongly magnetic fluids consisting of magnetic nanoparticles dispersed in a carrier fluid. Besides their technological applications, they have a tendency to form b…

cond-mat.soft2020

Electroferrofluids with non-equilibrium voltage-controlled magnetism, interfaces, and patterns

Tomy Cherian, Fereshteh Sohrabi, Carlo Rigoni +2

Materials with continuous dissipation can exhibit responses and functionalities that are not possible in thermodynamic equilibrium. While this concept is well-known, a major challe…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 21 cited

Structural diversity in electrohydrodynamically driven active and organized liquid states

Geet Raju, Nikos Kyriakopoulos, Jaakko V. I. Timonen

Spontaneous emergence of organized states in materials driven by non-equilibrium conditions is of significant fundamental and technological interest. In many cases, the organized s…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 98 cited

Wetting of ferrofluids: phenomena and control

Mika Latikka, Matilda Backholm, Jaakko V. I. Timonen +1

Ferrofluids are liquids exhibiting remarkably strong response to magnetic fields, which leads to fascinating properties useful in various applications. Understanding the wetting pr…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 161 cited

Film dynamics and lubricant depletion by droplets moving on lubricated surfaces

Michael J. Kreder, Dan Daniel, Adam Tetreault +4

Lubricated surfaces have shown promise in numerous applications where impinging foreign droplets must be removed easily; however, before they can be widely adopted, the problem of…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 158 cited

Origins of liquid-repellency on structured, flat, and lubricated surfaces

Dan Daniel, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Ruoping Li +4

There are currently three main classes of high-performance liquid-repellent surfaces: micro-/nano-structured lotus-effect superhydrophobic surfaces, flat surfaces grafted with 'liq…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 344 cited

Oleoplaning droplets on lubricated surfaces

Dan Daniel, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Ruoping Li +2

Recently, there has been much interest in using lubricated flat and nano-/micro-structured surfaces to achieve extreme liquid-repellency: any foreign droplet immiscible with the un…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 16 cited

Ferromagnetic resonance in -Co magnetic composites

Khattiya Chalapat, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Maija Huuppola +7

We investigate the electromagnetic properties of assemblies of nanoscale -cobalt crystals with size range between 5 nm to 35 nm, embedded in a polystyrene (PS) matrix, at microw…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011

Magnetic nanocomposites at microwave frequencies

J. V. I. Timonen, R. H. A. Ras, O. Ikkala +5

Most conventional magnetic materials used in the electronic devices are ferrites, which are composed of micrometer-size grains. But ferrites have small saturation magnetization, th…