*Correspondence: Benjamin C. Church, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 3200 North Cramer Street, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA e-mail: [email protected] Controlling the wettability between the porous electrode and the electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries can improve both the manufacturing process and the electrochemical performance of the cell. The wetting rate, which is the electrolyte transport ra...

Waterproof and self-cleaning surfaces continue to attract much attention as they can be instrumental in various different technologies. Such surfaces are typically rough, allowing liquids to contact only the outermost tops of their asperities, with air being entrapped underneath. The formed solid-liquid-air interface is metastable and, hence, can be forced into a completely wetted solid surface...

Chemical agglomeration can reduce the particulates (including PM2.5) concentration emitted from fly ash particulates and the wet flue gas desulfurization (WFGD) system. However, the calcium-based slurries affect the regulation of agglomeration compared to water, in particular, the wettability of the particulates and the viscosity of the calciumbased slurry. The wettability and the viscosity are...

The present work reports the fabrication process of micro lens for pinhole cameras using COMSOL Multiphysics®, by satisfying the wetting properties. Wetting means change of contact angle between the liquid and solid surface area. The wetting properties are clearly understood in terms of forces. The two immiscible fluids like conducting fluid and insulating fluid were taken for the formation of ...

When a nonequilibrium growing interface in the presence of a wall is considered a nonequilibrium wetting transition may take place. This transition can be studied trough Langevin equations or discrete growth models. In the first case, the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, which defines a very robust universality class for nonequilibrium moving interfaces, with a soft-wall potential is considered. W...

The shapes and energies of drops on substrates patterned with either holes or posts are computed using Surface Evolver software. The holes and posts are cylindrical in shape and distributed in a 6-fold symmetric pattern. The wetting conditions are such that the liquid does not fill the holes and the interface between the drop and the substrate is composite, i.e., partly solid/liquid and partly ...

Ferrofluid instabilities in DC magnetic fields for an Isopar-M based ferrofluid with saturation magnetization of about 400 Gauss. a) 1200 Gauss 5 mm diameter magnet behind small ferrofluid droplet surrounded by propanol to prevent ferrofluid wetting of 1 mm gap glass plates; Peak pattern with magnetic field perpendicular to ferrofluid layer. The peaks initiate in a hexagonal array when the magn...