Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme

Discharge Dynamics Controls The Liquid-solid Contact Electrification Of A Bouncing Drop

Rachel Piednoir, Anne-Laure Biance, Catherine Barentin

Institut Lumière Matière, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, France

Slowly Decaying Surface Charges Cause Memory Effects in Dynamic Wetting

Aaron D. Ratschow^1,2, Pravash Bista¹, Hans-Jürgen Butt¹, Stefan A. L. Weber^1,3

1: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany; 2: Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; 3: University of Stuttgart, Germany

Surface Charge Distribution Left Behind by Slipped and Evaporated Water Droplets

Nikolaus Knorr, Rüdiger Berger, Hnas-Jürgen Butt

Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany

Solid-liquid based Energy Generation on Electret CYTOP Surface with High Power Density

Shalini Shalini

iit delhi, India

Thermal Antibubbles in Microgravity: Formation, Stability, and Heat Transfer

Aymeric Allemand¹, Cyril André², Jonas Miguet¹, Thomas Gemine², Stephane Dorbolo², Benoit Scheid¹

1: TIPs, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: PtYX, CESAM-Soft Matter Pole, Université de Liège, Belgium

Water Droplet Evaporating On A Salt Substrate: From Flow Reversal to Hollow Rim

Jean Colombani¹, Christophe Pirat¹, Irina Vodolazskaya²

1: Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France; 2: Astrakhan State University, Russia

Hydrodynamics of Protein Transport in an Evaporating Sessile Model Respiratory Droplet

Javier Martínez Puig¹, Javier Rodríguez Rodíguez¹, Álvaro Marín²

1: Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain; 2: University of Twente

Respiratory Droplet Dynamics: Evaporation, Sedimentation, and Implications for Airborne Disease Transmission

Benoit Haut¹, Omer Atasi¹, Benjamin Sobac²

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

Vapor-mediated Wetting and Imbibition Control on Micropatterned Surfaces

Ze Xu, Stefan Karpitschka

University of Konstanz, Germany

Droplets Under Confinement of Atomically Thin Elastic Sheets

Zhaohe Dai

Peking University, China, People's Republic of

Effect Of The Demixing On The Equilibrium Droplet Shape At The Three-Phase Contact Line

Khalil Remini¹, Leonie Schmeller², Dirk Peschka², Barbara Wagner², Ralf Seemann¹

1: Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University; 2: Weierstrass Institute for Applied analysis and Stochastics, Berlin

Generational Droplets Dynamics On Fiber

Joséphine Van Hulle¹, Nicolas Vandewalle², Zhao Pan³

1: Saarland University, Germany; 2: University of Liège, Belgium; 3: University of Waterloo, Canada

Splitting Of Non-Newtonian Droplets On Wedge-Shaped Surfaces

Diego Ignacio Díaz, Kasra Amini, Shervin Bagheri, Outi Tammisola

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Electro-Mechanical Control of Plateau-Rayleigh Instability for Homogenous Multi-Cellular Production

Lucas Suire^1,2, Pierre Nassoy^1,2, Amaury Badon^1,2

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

Mradul Ojha, Lalit Kumar, Rajneesh Bhardwaj

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Capillary Ordered Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes As Probes Of Droplet Evaporation Phenomena

Markus Erik Ahlskog, Esa Hyyryläinen, Juha Merikoski

University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Ice Adhesion Strength vs. Surface Wetting and Roughness Relationships: Fact or Fiction?

Navid Mostofi Sarkari, Francisco Molina-Lopez, David Seveno

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

Henry T. Sharp¹, Stephen K. Wilson^2,1, Alexander W. Wray¹

1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: University of Bath, United Kingdom

Droplet-based Microfluidic Device to Screen E. Coli Growth Conditions

Hassan El Itawi, Aya Zoghlami, Madeleine Charbonnier, Firas Ghali, Yusmel Gonzalez Hernandez, Rafik Balti, Patrick Perré

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

Yuki Wakata¹, Feng Wang¹, Chao Sun^1,2, Detlef Lohse^3,4

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

Grégoire Nuiry¹, Shiyun Chen², Safae Mouftakhir³, Alain Wagner², Michaël Ryckelynck³, Marie-Pierre Krafft¹

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

C Ramgopal, Virkeshwar Kumar, K Muralidhar

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

The Stood-up Drops To Determine Receding Contact Angles

Diego Díaz¹, Aman Bhargava², Hans-Jürgen Butt¹, Thomas Willers³, Detlef Lohse², Vatsal Sanjay², Doris Vollmer¹

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

Dimitrios Tzitzilis¹, Charalampos Tsekerids^1,2, Ioannis Ntakoumis¹, Periklis Papadopoulos¹

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

Christian Diddens¹, Duarte Rocha¹, Detlef Lohse^1,2

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

Kévin Maltez Cavalheiro, Tristan Gilet

University of Liège, Belgium

Drop Impact onto Surfaces Patterned with a Hydrophobic Annulus

Jacob Douglas Dockery¹, Andrew Keith Dickerson¹, Miguel Quetzeri Santiago²

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

Lauren Bethany Schofield¹, Alexander W. Wray¹, Debasish Das¹, Stephen K. Wilson²

1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: University of Bath, United Kingdom

The Driving Mechanism of Capillary Condensation of Water

Ali Afzalifar

Aalto University, Finland

NEMD Study On The Heat Transport Phenomenon During Liquid-vapor Interfacial Adhesion

Hiroki Kusudo, Eita Shoji, Tetsushi Biwa

Tohoku University, Japan

Impact Following Drying of Complex Fluid Droplets

Geoff Willmott^1,2, Zhifei Geng¹

1: The University of Auckland, New Zealand; 2: The MacDiarmid Institute, New Zealand

Engineered Lithium Niobate Surfaces for Light-Driven Actuation of Droplets

Giampaolo Mistura, Sebastian Cremaschini, Filippo Marinello, Davide Ferraro, Matteo Pierno, Annamaria Zaltron, Paolo Umari

Padua University, Italy

Evaporation in the Vicinity of Contact Lines Formed by Droplets and Rivulets on Non-planar Surfaces

Nikolai Kubochkin¹, Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman¹, Vladimir S. Ajaev²

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

Fang Fang^1,2, Zijing Tian¹, Yongjian Cai^1,2, Lihua Huang^1,2, Van der Meeren Paul³, Jianhui Wang^1,2

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

François Balty, Amaury Baret, Alejandro V. Silhanek, Ngoc Duy Nguyen

ULiège, Belgium

An Investigation of the Parameters Affecting the Separation of Crude Oil Droplets from Produced Water Using Flocculants in Gas Flotation

Bahar Forouzeshrad, Nadia Shardt, Gisle Øye

Ugelstad Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Fragmentation Of Suspensions: Liquid Jets And Droplets

Louison Emile Marchand¹, Hugues Bodiguel², Nathanaël Machicoane¹

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

Abdur Rasheed, Pierre Perrier, David Brutin

AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITE, France

Droplet Encapsulation In Flow-focusing Microchannel

Chen Tang¹, Loïc Chagot^2,3, Panagiota Angeli¹

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

Mukesh Upadhyay, Amol N. Joshi, Vivek V. Ranade

Multiphase Reactors and Intensification Group, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

An Efficient Semi-analytical Diffusion-limited Evaporation Model

Anna Malachtari, George Karapetsas

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Drop Breakage Via Cavity Generated By Hydrodynamic Cavitation

Deepak Kumar Pandey, Rupak Kumar, Vivek Ranade

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

Siddharth Choudhary¹, Lisong Yang¹, Tynee Bhowmick², Padmanathan Karthick Kannan³, Julian W Gardner³, Tawfique Hasan², Colin D Bain¹

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

Christiaan Thomas van Campenhout, Romane Le Dizès Castell, Daniel Bonn, Noushine Shahidzadeh

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Temporal Evolution of Interfacial Charging in Moving Droplets

Nitish Singh, Dan Daniel

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Bubble Formation During Evaporative Crystallization In Multi-Component Saline Droplets

Narendra Kumar Chadalavada, Virkeshwar Kumar

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

Capillary Forces in a Soap Film

Youna Louyer¹, Benjamin Dollet², Isabelle Cantat¹, Anaïs Gauthier¹

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

Mohammad Torkian, Benoit Haut, Pierre Van De Velde, Benoit Scheid

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Satellite Formation in the Breakup of an Inviscid Ligament: Stretching and Asymmetric Effects

Xiaofeng Wei¹, Jinshun Gao¹, Dongyun Wang¹, Benoit Scheid²

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

Electro-Marangoni Flows In Thin Liquid Films: When Microscopic Instabilities Drive Macroscopic Stability.

Lucas Bidoire, Nino Zosso, Jan Vermant

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Hemiwicking : Revisiting the Dynamic of Viscous Liquid in Elastic Pillar Arrays

Jérôme Fresnais¹, Sarra Nouma¹, Céline Cohen², Xavier Noblin², Etienne Barthel³

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

Modelling Violent Droplet Impacts With A Micropillar Coated Surface

Peter Daniel Hicks¹, Richard Purvis²

1: University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom; 2: University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Drop Behavior on Polygon Pillars

Maria Tadmor¹, Ron Arogeti², Appu Vinod³, Victor Multanen^1,3, Merav Arogeti¹

1: Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 3: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Thermally Activated Swelling and Wetting Transition of Frozen Polymer Brushes

Luciana Buonaiuto¹, Sander Reuvekamp¹, Billura Shakhayeva², Enqing Liu¹, Franziska Neuhaus², Björn Braunschweig², Sissi de Beer¹, Frieder Mugele¹

1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Münster: Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster

The Effect of Nanoscale Topographic Roughness and Compositional Heterogeneity on Contact Line Friction

Michele Pellegrino^1,2, Fabiano Tarulli¹, Mokhtar G. Koli¹, Berk Hess², Matteo Fasano¹

1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Wetting And Spreading In Submerged Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Bhuvaneshwari Karunakaran

Aalto University, Finland

Dew Water Harvesting on Surfaces by Conductive Cooling: Understanding the Condensation Process

Sergio Parra-Vicente, Miguel Cabrerizo-Vílchez, Francisco Javier Montes Ruiz-Cabello, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Valverder

University of Granada, Spain

Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Simulations of Heterogeneous Nucleation of Droplets

Mirko Gallo, Matteo Teodori, Dario Abbondanza, Carlo Massimo Casciola

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Advanced Condensation Control on Biphilic Jumping Droplet Surfaces

Hiroki Yachida¹, Sophia Laney², Martyna Michalska², Ioannis Papakonstantinou², Timothée Mouterde¹

1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: University College London, UK

Formation and Growth of Dew Droplets on Grass Leaves

Sepideh Khodaparast, Bashra Mahamed, Francis Dent

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Waste Heat Recovery Using A Binary Solution

Marie-Caroline Jullien¹, Marc Pascual^1,2, Axelle Amon¹, Nicolas Chapuis², Soufiane Abdelghani- Idrissi², Alessandro Siria², Lydéric Bocquet²

1: CNRS, Institut de Physique de Rennes, Univ Rennes, France; 2: Laboratoire de Physique, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France

Bioinspired Kirigami Fog Nets : from the lab to the field

Denis Terwagne^1,2, Pierre-Brice Bintein^1,2, Axel Cornu^1,2, Nicolas De Coster^2,4, Nicolas Vandewalle³, Floriane Weyer³

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

Microfluidic Methods For Gas Nucleation From Supersaturated Aqueous Solutions For Studying Dissolved Gas Flotation

Anil Hatiboglu, Evdokia Saiti, Gisle Øye, Nadia Shardt

Ugelstad Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim, Norway

Acoustic Levitation of Grains and Drops--Studying Electrification Processes from the Bottom Up

Galien Grosjean, Scott Waitukaitis

Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria

Long-Range Attraction Of Marangoni Contracted Sessile Drops

Corey Stewart, Colin Bain

University of Durham, United Kingdom

Measuring the Accoustic Signature of Antibubbles

Jonas Miguet¹, Juliette Pierre², Benoit Scheid³, Adrien Bussonnière¹

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

Cell Spheroids In Gel Beads, Formed By Trapping And Merging Droplets

Malik Grini¹, Kévin Maltez Cavalheiro¹, Stéphanie van Loo², Christine Gilles³, Tristan Gilet¹

1: Microfluidics Lab, University of Liège; 2: LiveDrop, Belgium; 3: Giga Cancer, University of Liège

Analogy Between Quasi-Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Drops: From Static Shapes and Sliding to Marangoni-Driven Levitation

Tytti Kärki, Senna Luntama, Into Pääkkönen, Nikos Kyriakopoulos, Jaakko Timonen

Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Aalto University, Finland

Magic Carpet Breakup of Droplets under Low Pressure Conditions using a Thin-film Thermocouple Array

Ryuta Hatakenaka^1,2, Yoshiyuki Tagawa²

1: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; 2: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Drops Sliding Down An Inclined, Deformable, Substrate.

Laurent Limat¹, Mathieu Oléron¹, Julien Dervaux¹, Matthieu Roché¹, Tetsuharu Narita², François Lequeux², Menghua Zhao³

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