The wetting of droplets plays a critical role in engineering applications. Intensive study on nano-droplets is great significance revealing the characteristics droplets. behavior ethanol/water mixture smooth substrate was investigated through molecular dynamics simulation this paper. Five with different mass fractions placed copper surface energies were simulated to equilibrium at 298.15 K. con...

Carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants capture arthropods with specialized slippery surfaces. The key trapping surface, the pitcher rim (peristome), is highly slippery when wetted by rain, nectar or condensation, but not when dry. As natural selection should favour adaptations that maximize prey intake, the evolution of temporarily inactive traps seems paradoxical. Here, we show that intermittent...

We report the spontaneous patterning of polymer microgels by confining a polymer blend within microspheres. A poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and gelatin solution was confined inside water-in-oil (W/O) microdroplets coated with a layer of zwitterionic lipids: dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (PC). The droplet confinement affected the kinetics of the phase separa...

THE most suggestive observation which we have regarding the remarkable disksphere transformation which occurs when mammalian red cells in saline are enclosed between slide and coverslip is that the velocity and extent of the shape change depends on the distance between the surfaces, and upon whether or not both surfaces are wetted by the suspension medium (Ponder, 1929). Thus the transformation...

We estimate the effective Navier-slip length for flow over a spray-fabricated liquid-repellent surface which supports a composite solid-air-liquid interface or ’Cassie-Baxter’ state. The morphology of the coated substrate consists of randomly distributed corpuscular micro-structures which encapsulate a film of trapped air (or ’plastron’) upon contact with liquid. The reduction in viscous skin f...

Sub-surface irrigation with porous clay pipe can be an efficient, water saving method of irrigation for many less developed arid and semi-arid regions. Maximizing the efficiency of clay pipe irrigation requires guidelines and criteria for system design and operation. In this study, experimental and simulated (with HYDRUS (2D/3D)) soil wetting patterns were investigated for sub-surface pipe syst...

Sorption of crude oil by mineral surfaces may a€ect its ̄ow and recovery in porous media. Here, crude oil sorption from a toluene±heptane phase onto quartz and silica gel has been investigated both in the presence and absence of an aqueous phase, as a function of time, oil-to-sorbent ratio, pH, and wetting sequence. Steady-state is attained in roughly 24 h, with sorption following Freundlich is...