Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme

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Session Overview
Session
Oral Session 15 | Wetting II
Time:
Wednesday, 02/July/2025:
3:45pm - 5:00pm

Session Chair: Anne Juel, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
 Location: Room 204

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Presentations
3:45pm - 4:00pm
ID: 296 / Oral Session 15: 1

Tunable Wetting of Droplets on Patterned Liquid Surfaces

Hongyu Zhao1, Xitong Zhang1,2, Jack R Panter3, Glen McHale1, Gary G. Wells1, Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar1, Halim Kusumaatmaja1,2

1Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, U.K.; 2Department of Physics, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, U.K.; 3School of Engineering, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, U.K.


4:00pm - 4:15pm
ID: 341 / Oral Session 15: 2

Supercooling Droplets on Environmentally-friendly Biomimetic Anti-icing Surfaces

Florian BAS1,2, Maude Jimenez2,3, Vincent Thomy1, Yannick Coffinier1

1UMR 8520 - IEMN – Institut d'Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F-59000 Lille, France; 2UMR 8207 - UMET - Unité Matériaux et Transformations, France; 3Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Rue Descartes, 75000 Paris


4:15pm - 4:30pm
ID: 390 / Oral Session 15: 3

Visualizing how Drops Dissipate Energy when Moving on Superhydrophobic and Lubricated Surfaces

Abhinav Naga1, Aqib Asif1, Doris Vollmer2, Glen McHale1, Halim Kusumaatmaja1

1University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany


4:30pm - 4:45pm
ID: 145 / Oral Session 15: 4

Promoting Dropwise Condensation Via Silicone Oil Grafting

Anam Abbas1,2, Zafar Iqbal3, Gary G. Wells1, Glen Mchale1, Khellil Sefiane1, Daniel Orejon1,4

1Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, Scotland, UK; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore 39161, Pakistan; 3School of Engineering, Institute for Energy Systems, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, Scotland, UK; 4International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan


4:45pm - 5:00pm
ID: 164 / Oral Session 15: 5

Nanometer-scale Wetting of Porous Carbons: a Synchrotron Small-angle Scattering Study

François Chaltin1, Martin Rosenthal2,3, Alexandre Léonard1, Bart Goderis2, Cedric J. Gommes1

1University of Liege, Belgium; 2KULeuven, Belgium; 3ESRF, France