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cond-mat.soft2026

Coupled self-charging and self-propulsion of evaporating sessile droplets

Nitish Singh, Aaron D. Ratschow, Syed N. R. Kazmi +1

Evaporating sessile water droplets universally deposit surface charges while simultaneously becoming self-charged---a phenomenon that remains under-appreciated despite its potentia…

cond-mat.soft2026★ 1 cited

Mechanisms in Slide Electrification of Liquid and Frozen Drops on Hydrophobic Surfaces

Rutvik Lathia, Benjamin Leibauer, Aaron D. Ratschow +2

The microscopic and fundamental origin of slide electrification, where droplets of water move across insulating surfaces accumulating and depositing electrical charges, is still de…

cond-mat.soft2025

Bipolar surface charging by evaporating water droplets

Nitish Singh, Aaron D. Ratschow, Nabeel Aslam +1

Surface charging is a ubiquitous phenomenon with important consequences. On one hand, surface charging underpins emerging technologies such as triboelectric nanogenerators; on the…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 6 cited

Convection can enhance the capacitive charging of porous electrodes

Aaron D. Ratschow, Alexander J. Wagner, Mathijs Janssen +1

Charge transport in porous electrodes is foundational for modern energy storage technologies like supercapacitors, fuel cells, and batteries. Supercapacitors in particular rely sol…

cond-mat.soft2023

Gate Electrodes Enable Tunable Nanofluidic Particle Traps

Philippe M. Nicollier, Aaron D. Ratschow, Francesca Ruggeri +4

The ability to control the location of nanoscale objects in liquids is essential for fundamental and applied research from nanofluidics to molecular biology. To overcome their rand…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 2 cited

How charges separate when surfaces are dewetted

Aaron D. Ratschow, Lisa S. Bauer, Pravash Bista +3

Charge separation at moving three-phase contact lines is observed in nature as well as technological processes. Despite the growing number of experimental investigations in recent…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 43 cited

Surface charge deposition by moving drops reduces contact angles

Xiaomei Li, Aaron D. Ratschow, Steffen Hardt +1

Slide electrification - the spontaneous charge separation by sliding water drops - can lead to an electrostatic potential of 1 kV and change drop motion substantially. To find out,…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 19 cited

Resonantly-driven nanopores can serve as nanopumps

Aaron D. Ratschow, Doyel Pandey, Benno Liebchen +2

Inducing transport in electrolyte-filled nanopores with dc fields has led to influential applications ranging from nanosensors to DNA sequencing. Here we use the Poisson-Nernst-Pla…