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20082024
most citedPrinting surface charge as a new paradigm to program droplet transport

638 citations · 819 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.soft2024★ 22 cited

Cloaking Transition of Droplets on Lubricated Brushes

Rodrique G. M. Badr, Lukas Hauer, Doris Vollmer +1

We study the equilibrium properties and the wetting behavior of a simple liquid on a polymer brush, with and without presence of lubricant by multibody Dissipative Particle Dynamic…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 33 cited

Phase Separation in Wetting Ridges of Sliding Drops on Soft and Swollen Surfaces

Lukas Hauer, Zhuoyun Cai, Doris Vollmer +1

Drops in contact with swollen, elastomeric substrates can induce a capillary-mediated phase separation in wetting ridges. Using laser scanning confocal microscopy, we visualize pha…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 26 cited

Enhancing condensation on soft substrates through bulk lubricant infusion

Chander Shekhar Sharma, Athanasios Milionis, Abhinav Naga +9

Soft substrates such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) enhance droplet nucleation during the condensation of water vapour, because their deformability inherently reduces the energetic…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 80 cited

Lifting a sessile oil drop from a superamphiphobic surface with an impacting one

Olinka Ramírez-Soto, Vatsal Sanjay, Detlef Lohse +2

Colliding drops are widely encountered in everyday technologies and natural processes, from combustion engines and commodity sprays to raindrops and cloud formation. The outcome of…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 638 cited

Printing surface charge as a new paradigm to program droplet transport

Qiangqiang Sun, Dehui Wang, Jiahui Zhang +8

Directed, long-range and self-propelled transport of droplets on solid surfaces, especially on water repellent surfaces, is crucial for many applications from water harvesting to b…

physics.chem-ph2016★ 19 cited

The Cassie-Wenzel transition of fluids on nanostructured substrates: Macroscopic force balance versus microscopic density-functional theory

Nikita Tretyakov, Periklis Papadopoulos, Doris Vollmer +3

Classical density functional theory is applied to investigate the validity of a phenomenological force-balance description of the stability of the Cassie state of liquids on substr…

cond-mat.soft2009★ 1 cited

The collapse of linear polyelectrolyte chains in a poor solvent: When does a collapsing polyelectrolyte collect its counter ions?

Peter Loh, G. Roshan Deen, Doris Vollmer +4

In order to better understand the collapse of polyions in poor solvent conditions the effective charge and the solvent quality of the hypothetically uncharged polymer backbone need…

cond-mat.soft2008

Time-resolved X-ray microscopy of nanoparticle aggregates under oscillatory shear

G. K. Auernhammer, K. Fauth, B. Ullrich +3

Of all current detection techniques with nanometer resolution, only X-ray microscopy allows imaging nanoparticles in suspension. Can it also be used to investigate structural dynam…