Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme

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

Tunable Wetting of Droplets on Patterned Liquid Surfaces

Hongyu Zhao¹, Xitong Zhang^1,2, Jack R Panter³, Glen McHale¹, Gary G. Wells¹, Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar¹, Halim Kusumaatmaja^1,2

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 BAS^1,2, Maude Jimenez^2,3, 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 Abbas^1,2, Zafar Iqbal³, Gary G. Wells¹, Glen Mchale¹, Khellil Sefiane¹, Daniel Orejon^1,4

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 Rosenthal^2,3, Alexandre Léonard¹, Bart Goderis², Cedric J. Gommes¹

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