Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme
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Session Overview |
Date: Thursday, 03/July/2025 | |||
8:30am - 9:15am |
Plenary Speech by Petia M. Vlahovska Location: Room 604 Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium Dynamics of complex interfaces: biomimetic membranes, charged droplets, and active fluids |
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9:15am - 10:00am |
Plenary Speech by Hans-Jürgen Butt Location: Room 604 Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium Spontaneous charging of sliding water drops |
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10:00am - 10:45am |
Poster Pitches Session 3 Location: Room 604 Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium |
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10:45am - 11:15am |
Coffee Break Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Oral Session 16 | Electro-Hydrodynamics Location: Room 604 Chair: José Manuel Gordillo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Discharge Dynamics Controls The Liquid-solid Contact Electrification Of A Bouncing Drop Institut Lumière Matière, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, France 11:30am - 11:45am Slowly Decaying Surface Charges Cause Memory Effects in Dynamic Wetting 1: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany; 2: Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; 3: University of Stuttgart, Germany 11:45am - 12:00pm Surface Charge Distribution Left Behind by Slipped and Evaporated Water Droplets Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany 12:00pm - 12:15pm Solid-liquid based Energy Generation on Electret CYTOP Surface with High Power Density iit delhi, India |
Oral Session 17 | Evaporation III Location: Room 304 Chair: Petia Vlahovska, Northwestern University, United States of America Thermal Antibubbles in Microgravity: Formation, Stability, and Heat Transfer 1: TIPs, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: PtYX, CESAM-Soft Matter Pole, Université de Liège, Belgium 11:30am - 11:45am Water Droplet Evaporating On A Salt Substrate: From Flow Reversal to Hollow Rim 1: Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France; 2: Astrakhan State University, Russia 11:45am - 12:00pm Hydrodynamics of Protein Transport in an Evaporating Sessile Model Respiratory Droplet 1: Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain; 2: University of Twente 12:00pm - 12:15pm Respiratory Droplet Dynamics: Evaporation, Sedimentation, and Implications for Airborne Disease Transmission 1: Transfers, Interfaces and Processes (TIPs Lab), Université libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium; 2: CNRS, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, LFCR, 64600 Anglet, France |
Oral Session 18 | Wetting III Location: Room 204 Chair: Maja Vuckovac, Aalto University, Finland Vapor-mediated Wetting and Imbibition Control on Micropatterned Surfaces University of Konstanz, Germany 11:30am - 11:45am Droplets Under Confinement of Atomically Thin Elastic Sheets Peking University, China, People's Republic of 11:45am - 12:00pm Effect Of The Demixing On The Equilibrium Droplet Shape At The Three-Phase Contact Line 1: Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University; 2: Weierstrass Institute for Applied analysis and Stochastics, Berlin 12:00pm - 12:15pm Generational Droplets Dynamics On Fiber 1: Saarland University, Germany; 2: University of Liège, Belgium; 3: University of Waterloo, Canada |
12:15pm - 1:45pm |
Lunch Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) |
Poster Session 3 Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) +R.52 + R.53 Splitting Of Non-Newtonian Droplets On Wedge-Shaped Surfaces KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Electro-Mechanical Control of Plateau-Rayleigh Instability for Homogenous Multi-Cellular Production 1: Laboratoire Photonique Numérique et Nanosciences, Univ. Bordeaux, F-33400 Talence, France; 2: Institut d’ Optique Graduate School, CNRS UMR 5298, F-33400 Talence, France Experimental And Numerical Study Of An Evaporating Capillary Bridge Of A Binary Liquid Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Capillary Ordered Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes As Probes Of Droplet Evaporation Phenomena University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Ice Adhesion Strength vs. Surface Wetting and Roughness Relationships: Fact or Fiction? KU Leuven, Department of Materials Engineering (MTM), Leuven, Belgium The Effect of Particle Adsorption onto the Substrate from a Pinned Particle-Laden Droplet Undergoing One-Sided Evaporation 1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: University of Bath, United Kingdom Droplet-based Microfluidic Device to Screen E. Coli Growth Conditions Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés et Matériaux, Centre Européen de Biotechnologie et de Bioéconomie (CEBB), 3 rue des Rouges Terres, Pomacle 51110, France. Thermal-Solutal-Induced Bistability of Evaporating Multicomponent Liquid Thin Films 1: New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Center for Combustion Energy, Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China; 2: Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China; 3: Department of Physics of Fluids, Max Planck–Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Twente, Enschede 7500AE, The Netherlands; 4: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen 37077, Germany Droplet Microfluidics: Surface Analysis Techniques for Selecting Fluorosurfactants to Investigate RNA/Protein Interactions 1: Institut Charles Sadron (UPR CNRS 22), University of Strasbourg, 67037 Strasbourg, France; 2: Bio-Functional Chemistry (UMR 7199), University of Strasbourg, 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France; 3: Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN (UPR 9002 du CNRS), University of Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France Hollow Droplet Spreading on a Physically Textured Surface Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India The Stood-up Drops To Determine Receding Contact Angles 1: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128, Mainz, Germany; 2: Physics of Fluids Department, Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, Enschede, 7500 AE, The Netherlands; 3: KRÜSS GmbH, Germany Transition Between Wetting States On Slippery Surfaces 1: Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece; 2: University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark Numerical Prediction of Azimuthal Instabilities and Self-Induced Motion in Evaporating Droplets 1: Physics of Fluids, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; 2: Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany Controlled Pairing and Merging of Droplets in Microfluidic Well Arrays University of Liège, Belgium Drop Impact onto Surfaces Patterned with a Hydrophobic Annulus 1: University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States of America; 2: Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Evaporation of an Elongated Droplet 1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: University of Bath, United Kingdom The Driving Mechanism of Capillary Condensation of Water Aalto University, Finland NEMD Study On The Heat Transport Phenomenon During Liquid-vapor Interfacial Adhesion Tohoku University, Japan Impact Following Drying of Complex Fluid Droplets 1: The University of Auckland, New Zealand; 2: The MacDiarmid Institute, New Zealand Engineered Lithium Niobate Surfaces for Light-Driven Actuation of Droplets Padua University, Italy Evaporation in the Vicinity of Contact Lines Formed by Droplets and Rivulets on Non-planar Surfaces 1: Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Peter-Grünberg-Straße 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany; 2: Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA The Structural, Antioxidant And eEmulsifying Properties Of Cellulose Nanofiber-dihydromyricetin Mixtures: Effects Of Composite Ratio 1: School of Food Science and Bioengineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, 410114, China; 2: Hunan Province Prepared Dishes Engineering Technology Research Center, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha, 410114, China; 3: Particle and Interfacial Technology Group, Ghent University, 9000, Gent, Belgium Silver Droplets Resulting from Morphological Instabilities of Silver Nanowires below the Bulk Melting Point ULiège, Belgium An Investigation of the Parameters Affecting the Separation of Crude Oil Droplets from Produced Water Using Flocculants in Gas Flotation Ugelstad Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Fragmentation Of Suspensions: Liquid Jets And Droplets 1: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LEGI, 38000 Grenoble, France; 2: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LRP, 38000 Grenoble, France The Combined Effects of Relative Humidity and Temperature on the Wetting, Evaporation and Deposition of Whole Blood Droplets AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITE, France Droplet Encapsulation In Flow-focusing Microchannel 1: University College London (UCL), United Kingdom; 2: Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT); Université de Toulouse, INPT, UPS, CNRS, Toulouse, France; 3: Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie (LAPLACE); Université de Toulouse, INPT, UPS, CNRS, Toulouse, France Vortex-Based Hydrodynamic Cavitation for Tailored Oil-in-Water Emulsions Multiphase Reactors and Intensification Group, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland An Efficient Semi-analytical Diffusion-limited Evaporation Model Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Drop Breakage Via Cavity Generated By Hydrodynamic Cavitation Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland Thin Film Fabrication of Highly Porous Network of Monodisperse Macroclusters of Metal-Oxide Nanoparticles Generated via Emulsion Solvent Evaporation 1: Department of Chemistry, Durham University, United Kingdom; 2: Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 3: School of Engineering, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Drying Aqueous Drops of Mixed Sulfate Solutions: Emergence of an Amorphous Phase University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Temporal Evolution of Interfacial Charging in Moving Droplets King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Bubble Formation During Evaporative Crystallization In Multi-Component Saline Droplets Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Capillary Forces in a Soap Film 1: Université de Rennes, CNRS, IPR, Rennes, France; 2: Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LiPhy, Grenoble, France Exploring Different Bubbling Regimes in Water Electrolysis Using a Novel Membraneless Micro-electrolyzer Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
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1:45pm - 2:15pm |
Keynote Speech by Wei Xiaofeng Location: Room 604 Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France Satellite Formation in Ligament Breakup: Viscosity and Stretching Effects
Satellite Formation in the Breakup of an Inviscid Ligament: Stretching and Asymmetric Effects 1: College of engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, 321004 Jinhua, China; 2: TIPs - Fluid Physics Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles C.P. 165/67, 1050 Brussels, Belgium |
Keynote Speech by Jacco Snoeijer Location: Room 304 Chair: Miguel Quetzeri-Santiago, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Soft Condensation |
Keynote Speech by Anne Juel Location: Room 204 Chair: Tadd Truscott, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Fragmentation via Horizontal Vibration: A Pathway to Scalable Monodisperse Emulsification |
2:15pm - 4:00pm |
Oral Session 19 | Wetting IV Location: Room 604 Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France Electro-Marangoni Flows In Thin Liquid Films: When Microscopic Instabilities Drive Macroscopic Stability. ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2:30pm - 2:45pm Hemiwicking : Revisiting the Dynamic of Viscous Liquid in Elastic Pillar Arrays 1: Physicochimie des Électrolytes et Nanosystèmes Interfaciaux, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France; 2: Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS UMR 7010, Institut de Physique de Nice, 17 Rue Julien Lauprêtre, 06200 Nice, France; 3: Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France 2:45pm - 3:00pm Modelling Violent Droplet Impacts With A Micropillar Coated Surface 1: University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom; 2: University of East Anglia, United Kingdom 3:00pm - 3:15pm Drop Behavior on Polygon Pillars 1: Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 3: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 3:15pm - 3:30pm Thermally Activated Swelling and Wetting Transition of Frozen Polymer Brushes 1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Münster: Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster 3:30pm - 3:45pm The Effect of Nanoscale Topographic Roughness and Compositional Heterogeneity on Contact Line Friction 1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 3:45pm - 4:00pm Wetting And Spreading In Submerged Superhydrophobic Surfaces Aalto University, Finland |
Oral Session 20 | Condensation Location: Room 304 Chair: Miguel Quetzeri-Santiago, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Dew Water Harvesting on Surfaces by Conductive Cooling: Understanding the Condensation Process University of Granada, Spain 2:30pm - 2:45pm Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Simulations of Heterogeneous Nucleation of Droplets Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 2:45pm - 3:00pm Advanced Condensation Control on Biphilic Jumping Droplet Surfaces 1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: University College London, UK 3:00pm - 3:15pm Formation and Growth of Dew Droplets on Grass Leaves University of Leeds, United Kingdom 3:15pm - 3:30pm Waste Heat Recovery Using A Binary Solution 1: CNRS, Institut de Physique de Rennes, Univ Rennes, France; 2: Laboratoire de Physique, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France 3:30pm - 3:45pm Bioinspired Kirigami Fog Nets : from the lab to the field 1: Frugal Lab, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium; 2: Fab Lab ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium; 3: GRASP, Faculté des Sciences, University of Liège (ULiège), Belgium.; 4: Institut Royal Météorologique (IRM), Brussels, Belgium 3:45pm - 4:00pm Microfluidic Methods For Gas Nucleation From Supersaturated Aqueous Solutions For Studying Dissolved Gas Flotation Ugelstad Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim, Norway |
Oral Session 21 | Coalescence & Break-up III Location: Room 204 Chair: Tadd Truscott, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Acoustic Levitation of Grains and Drops--Studying Electrification Processes from the Bottom Up Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria 2:30pm - 2:45pm Long-Range Attraction Of Marangoni Contracted Sessile Drops University of Durham, United Kingdom 2:45pm - 3:00pm Measuring the Accoustic Signature of Antibubbles 1: Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, France; 2: Sorbonne Université, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, France; 3: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Transferts, Interfaces et Procédés, Belgique 3:00pm - 3:15pm Cell Spheroids In Gel Beads, Formed By Trapping And Merging Droplets 1: Microfluidics Lab, University of Liège; 2: LiveDrop, Belgium; 3: Giga Cancer, University of Liège 3:15pm - 3:30pm Analogy Between Quasi-Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Drops: From Static Shapes and Sliding to Marangoni-Driven Levitation Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Aalto University, Finland 3:30pm - 3:45pm Magic Carpet Breakup of Droplets under Low Pressure Conditions using a Thin-film Thermocouple Array 1: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; 2: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology 3:45pm - 4:00pm Drops Sliding Down An Inclined, Deformable, Substrate. 1: Université Paris Cité and CNRS, France; 2: ESPCI, Paris Science et Lettres and CNRS, France; 3: School of Information Mechanics and Sensing Engineering, Xidian University, China |
4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Goodbye Coffee Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) |