3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Hygroscopic hysteresis drives intermittent salt creeping
Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Manikuntala Mukhopadhyay, Lijun Thayyil Raju +3
Salt creeping -- the precipitation of salt crystals away from an evaporating liquid interface along surrounding surfaces -- occurs across settings from geology and cultural-heritag…
cond-mat.soft2025
Tunable self-emulsification via viscoelastic control of Marangoni-driven interfacial instabilities
Christoph Haessig, Mehdi Habibi, Uddalok Sen
Interfacial instabilities in multicomponent fluidic systems are widespread in nature and in industrial processes, yet controlling their dynamics remains a challenge. Here, we prese…
physics.flu-dyn2023
Capillary adhesion of stick insects
Guillermo J. Amador, Brett Klaassen van Oorschot, Uddalok Sen +2
Scientific progress within the last few decades has revealed the functional morphology of an insect's sticky footpads -- a soft, sponge-like pad that secretes a thin liquid film. H…