Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference.

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Session Overview
Location: Room 604
Date: Tuesday, 01/July/2025
9:30am
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9:45am
Opening Speech
Location: Room 604
Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium
Opening speech by the Conference Chairs — Prof. Stéphane Dorbolo (ULiège), Prof. Tristan Gilet (ULiège), and Prof. Benoit Scheid (ULB) — followed by a welcome address from Prof. Pierre Duysinx, Vice-Rector for International Relations and Mobility at ULiège
9:45am
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10:30am
Plenary Speech by Emmanuel Villermaux
Location: Room 604
Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Fragmentation with, and without mechanism: Are principles enough?
10:30am
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11:15am
Plenary Speech by Petra S. Dittrich
Location: Room 604
Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Droplets-on-a-plate: High-throughput creation, analyses and applications
11:15am
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12:00pm
Poster Pitches Session 1
Location: Room 604
Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
1:30pm
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2:00pm
Keynote Speech by Dominique Legendre
Location: Room 604
Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The
Droplet lift force peak due to internal 3D flow bifurcation
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Oral Session 1 | Droplet Manipulation I
Location: Room 604
Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The
 
2:00pm - 2:15pm

Dancing Droplets: The Physics of Post-impact Retraction Dynamics

Aman Bhargava1, Doris Vollmer2, Detlef Lohse1, Vatsal Sanjay1

1: Physics of Fluids group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; 2: Max Planck Insitute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Dual Role Of Local Contact Angles In Spontaneous Drop Motion On Gradient Surfaces

Frieder Mugele, Sander Reuvekamp, Sissi de Beer

Univ. Twente, Netherlands, The



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Chemo-mechanical Coupling In Sessile Drops Covered By Reactive Surfactants - From Simple Self-propulsion To Chaotic Motion

Florian Voss1, Uwe Thiele1,2

1: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster, Germany; 2: Center for Nonlinear Science (CeNoS), University of Münster, Germany



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Fast and viscous !

Auriane Huyghues Despointes, David Quéré

Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes (PMMH), France



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Hot liquid marbles

Pritam Kumar Roy1, Yui Takai1, Rui Matsubara1, Mizuki Tenjimbayashi2, Timothée Mouterde1

1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan



3:15pm - 3:30pm

Impact of Shear-Thickening Capsules

Philippe Bourrianne1,2, Etienne Jambon-Puillet2,3, Howard A. Stone2, Pierre-Thomas Brun2

1: PMMH, ESPCI Paris, France; 2: Princeton University, NJ, USA; 3: LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, France

4:00pm
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6:00pm
Oral Session 4 | Droplet Manipulation II
Location: Room 604
Chair: Philippe Bourrianne, ESPCI Paris, France
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Self-Accelerating Drops on Sustainable Super Liquid Repellent Surfaces

William Wong, Maja Vuckovac

Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Static Friction of Liquid Marbles

Kei Mukoyama1, Yui Takai1, Pritam Kumar Roy1, Guillaume Lagubeau2, David Quéré3, Samuel Poincloux4, Timothée Mouterde1

1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: Université de Lille; 3: ESPCI Paris; 4: Aoyama Gakuin University



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Bouncing of Liquid Drops on a Soft Solid

Kexin Zhao1,2, David Quere1,2

1: espci paris, France; 2: ecole polytechnique



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Orbiting Droplets on a Soap Film.

Jean Paul Martischang1, Benjamin Reichert1, Alexis Duchesne1, Germain Rousseaux2, Michaël Baudoin1,3

1: Univ. Lille, UMR 8520 - IEMN- Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F-59000 Lille, France; 2: Institut Pprime (UPR 3346), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, ISAE ENSMA, Poitiers, France; 3: Institut Universitaire de France, 1 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France



5:00pm - 5:15pm

Caterpillar Like Motion of a Droplet in a Shear Flow

Julien Sebilleau, Antonio Chahine, Romain Mathis, Dominique Legendre

Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT°, France



5:15pm - 5:30pm

Swimming Droplets Facing Adversity

Mathilde Reyssat1, Léo-Paul Barbier1, Maitane Muñoz-Basagoiti2

1: Gulliver Lab., ESPCI Paris, France; 2: ISTA, Klosterneuburg, Austria



5:30pm - 5:45pm

Bursting Soap Film : Origin of the Flapping Flag Instability

Alexandre Guillemot1, Juliette Pierre1, Adrien Bussonnière2

1: Institut d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université, UMR 7190, 75005 Paris, France; 2: Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Cité, UMR 7057, 75013, Paris, France



5:45pm - 6:00pm

Development of a Droplet-Based Millifluidic Reactor for Continuous Synthesis of Bio-Based Styrenes.

Firas Ghali1, Hassan El Itawi1, Aya Zoghlami1, Benjamin Lalanne2, Patrick Perré1

1: 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.; 2: Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INP, UPS, Toulouse, France.

Date: Wednesday, 02/July/2025
8:45am
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9:30am
Plenary Speech by Suzie Protière
Location: Room 604
Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium
Freezing water and hydrogel drops
9:30am
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10:15am
Poster Pitches Session 2
Location: Room 604
Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium
10:45am
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11:15am
Keynote Speech by Tadd Truscott
Location: Room 604
Chair: Emmanuel Villermaux, Aix Marseille Université, France
Extremely Large Droplet Formation and Breakup
11:15am
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12:15pm
Oral Session 7 | Impacts I
Location: Room 604
Chair: Emmanuel Villermaux, Aix Marseille Université, France
 
11:15am - 11:30am

Capillary Actuation and Tunable Drop Dynamics in a Helical Geometry

Bidisha Bhatt, Andreas Carlson

Mechanics Division, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway



11:30am - 11:45am

Droplet Impact Onto Superhydrophobic Substrates Under High Pressure

Yan Yan, Muhammad Amjad, Xiaolong Ma, Dongsheng Wen

Chair of Thermodynamics, Technology University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany



11:45am - 12:00pm

Dynamics of Fiber Motion in Impacting Fiber-Laden Droplets

Lisa Sophie Bauer, Steffen Hardt

TU Darmstadt, Germany



12:00pm - 12:15pm

Unifying Theory Of Scaling In Drop Impact: Forces And Maximum Spreading Diameter

Detlef Lohse, Vatsal Sanjay

University of Twente, Netherlands, The

1:45pm
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2:15pm
Keynote Speech by Jose Manuel Gordillo
Location: Room 604
Chair: Catherine Barentin, University of Lyon 1 / Institut of Light and Matter, France
From drop splashing to Worthington jets
2:15pm
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3:15pm
Oral Session 10 | Coalescence & Break-up II
Location: Room 604
Chair: Catherine Barentin, University of Lyon 1 / Institut of Light and Matter, France
 
2:15pm - 2:30pm

Morphological Evolution of Impacting Droplets Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Yoshiyuki Tagawa, Jingzu Yee, Shunsuke Kumagai, Daichi Igarashi, Pradipto Pradipto, Akinori Yamanaka

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Rim Dynamics And Droplet Ejections Upon Drop Impact On Star-Shaped Poles

Tobias Bauer1, Tristan Gilet2

1: ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 2: University of Liège, Belgium



2:45pm - 3:00pm

Raindrop Dynamics in Forest Canopies: Machine Learning and Rain Simulation Insights into Canopy Drip and Splash Throughfall

Kazuki Nanko1, Delphis F. Levia2, Shin'ichi Iida3, Yoshinori Shinohara4, Naoki Sakai5

1: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; 2: University of Delaware, DE, USA; 3: Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan; 4: University of Miyazaki, Japan; 5: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Coalescence of Sessile and Pendent Droplets at Different Approach Speed

Raghvendra Dwivedi1, Hiranya Deka2, Jean-Lou Pierson3, Jacques Magnaudet4, Susmita Dash1

1: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India; 2: Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, IIT Dharwad, Dharwad 580011, India; 3: IFP Energies Nouvelles, Rond-point de l’´echangeur de Solaize, 69360 Solaize, France; 4: Institut de M´ecanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), Universit´e de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France

3:45pm
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5:00pm
Oral Session 13 | Impacts II
Location: Room 604
Chair: Dominique Legendre, Toulouse INP-IMFT, France
 
3:45pm - 4:00pm

Splash On A Liquid Pool: Coupled Cavity–Sheet Unsteady Dynamics

N Shen, R Dandekar, B Naar, L Bourouiba

MIT, United States of America



4:00pm - 4:15pm

Drop Impact in a Cool Liquid Bath: What is Final Shape?

Marion Berry1, Christophe Josserand2, Anniina Salonen3, François Boulogne1

1: Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, 91405, Orsay, France.; 2: Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), UMR 7646 CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France.; 3: Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France



4:15pm - 4:30pm

The Interplay Of Impact Dynamics And Freezing Characteristics Of Water Droplets On A Superhydrophobic Surface

Yuheng Shang1, Matic Moze2, Sylvie Castagne1, David Seveno1, Maria Rosaria Vetrano1

1: KU Leuven; 2: University of Ljubljana



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Complex Morphology on the Underside of a Leidenfrost-levitated Hydrogel Sphere

Vicente Luis Diaz-Melian1, Isaac Lento1, Jack Binysh2, Anton Souslov3, Scott Waitukaitis1

1: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria; 2: Faculty of Science, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3: TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Levitating Fizzy Droplets

Hugo Delrieu, Laurent Duchemin, David Quéré, Philippe Bourrianne

PMMH, ESPCI Paris, France

Date: Thursday, 03/July/2025
8:30am
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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
9:15am
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10:00am
Plenary Speech by Hans-Jürgen Butt
Location: Room 604
Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium
Spontaneous charging of sliding water drops
10:00am
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10:45am
Poster Pitches Session 3
Location: Room 604
Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium
11:15am
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12:15pm
Oral Session 16 | Electro-Hydrodynamics
Location: Room 604
Chair: José Manuel Gordillo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
 
11:15am - 11:30am

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



11:30am - 11:45am

Slowly Decaying Surface Charges Cause Memory Effects in Dynamic Wetting

Aaron D. Ratschow1,2, Pravash Bista1, Hans-Jürgen Butt1, Stefan A. L. Weber1,3

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

Nikolaus Knorr, Rüdiger Berger, Hnas-Jürgen Butt

Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany



12:00pm - 12:15pm

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

Shalini Shalini

iit delhi, India

1:45pm
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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

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

2:15pm
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4:00pm
Oral Session 19 | Wetting IV
Location: Room 604
Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France
 
2:15pm - 2:30pm

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

Lucas Bidoire, Nino Zosso, Jan Vermant

ETH Zurich, Switzerland



2:30pm - 2:45pm

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



2:45pm - 3:00pm

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



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Drop Behavior on Polygon Pillars

Maria Tadmor1, Ron Arogeti2, Appu Vinod3, Victor Multanen1,3, Merav Arogeti1

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

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



3:30pm - 3:45pm

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

Michele Pellegrino1,2, Fabiano Tarulli1, Mokhtar G. Koli1, Berk Hess2, Matteo Fasano1

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



3:45pm - 4:00pm

Wetting And Spreading In Submerged Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Bhuvaneshwari Karunakaran

Aalto University, Finland