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Amorphous nanocrystal deposits for friction and wear reduction at silicon interfaces
Tijn Vernooij, Tunç Çiftçi, Noushine Shahidzadeh +1
When an object is placed on a surface, friction and wear cause uncertainty in its exact position, and thus challenge precision manufacturing. Here, we explore the development of a…
Controlled Spherulitic Crystal Growth from Salt Mixtures: A Universal Mechanism for Complex Crystal Self-Assembly
Tess Heeremans, Simon Lépinay, Romane Le Dizès Castell +5
Spherulites are complex polycrystalline structures that form through the self-assembly of small aggregated nanocrystals starting from a central point and growing radially outward.…
Water-rich amorphous state from drying mixed-metal sulfate solutions
Christiaan T. van Campenhout, Romane Le Dizès Castell, Tess Heeremans +3
Amorphous and glassy materials are important for many advanced applications, from flexible solar cells to drug delivery systems. To this end, new glasses are in high demand, but pr…
Pore network models for the evaporation of complex fluids in porous media
Romane Le Dizès Castell, Marc Prat, Noushine Shahidzadeh +1
Drying of fluids undergoing sol-gel transition in porous media, a process crucial for the consolidation of damaged porous structures in cultural heritage, often leads to skin forma…
Self-Organized Pattern Formation in Geological Soft Matter
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Charles S. Cockell, Lucas Goehring +12
Geological materials are often seen as the antithesis of soft; rocks are hard. However, during the formation of minerals and rocks, all the systems we shall discuss, indeed geologi…
Damage due to Ice Crystallization
Menno Demmenie, Paul Kolpakov, Boaz van Casteren +3
The freezing of water is one of the major causes of mechanical damage in materials during wintertime; surprisingly this happens even in situations where water only partially satura…
Floppy hydrated salt microcrystals
Rozeline Wijnhorst, Menno Demmenie, Etienne Jambon-Puillet +3
The crystalline structure of minerals due to the highly ordered assembly of its constituent atoms, ions or molecules confers a considerable hardness and brittleness to the material…
Stringiness of Hyaluronic Acid Emulsions
H. V. M. Kibbelaar, A. Deblais, K. P. Velikov +2
In this work, we underline the importance of the molecular weight of hyaluronic acid on the elongational properties of concentrated emulsions. The filament formation properties, e.…
Droplet Splashing on Rough Surfaces
T. C. de Goede, K. G. de Bruin, N. Shahidzadeh +1
When a droplet hits a surface fast enough, droplet splashing can occur: smaller secondary droplets detach from the main droplet during impact. While droplet splashing on smooth sur…
Droplet impact of Newtonian fluids and blood on simple fabrics: effect of fabric pore size and underlying substrate
T. C. de Goede, A. M. Moqaddam, K. C. M. Limpens +5
When a droplet impacts a fabric mesh at a sufficiently high impact velocity, it not only spreads over the fabric but also penetrate its pores. To determine the influence of this li…
Sprays from droplets impacting a mesh
Stefan Kooij, Ali Mazloomi Moqaddam, Thijs C. de Goede +4
In liquid spray applications, the sprays are often created by the formation and destabilization of a liquid sheet or jet. The disadvantage of such atomization processes is that the…
Wetting of Water on Graphene
Bijoyendra Bera, Noushine Shahidzadeh, Himanshu Mishra +1
The wetting properties of graphene have proven controversial and difficult to assess. The presence of a graphene layer on top of a substrate does not significantly change the wetti…
Measurement of the Pressure induced by salt crystallization in confinement
Julie Desarnaud, Daniel Bonn, Noushine Shahidzadeh
Salt crystallization is a major cause of weathering of artworks, monuments and rocks. Damage will occur if crystals continue to grow in confinement, i.e. within the pore space of t…
Metastability limit for the nucleation of NaCl crystals in confinement
Julie Desarnaud, Hannelore Derluyn, Jan Carmeliet +2
We study the spontaneous nucleation and growth of sodium chloride crystals induced by controlled evaporation in confined geometries (microcapillaries) spanning several orders of ma…