Controlling the motion of liquid drops in contact with a solid surface has broad technological
implications in many different areas ranging from textiles to microfluidics and heat …

In this paper, the pinning and depinning mechanism of the contact line during droplet
evaporation on chemically stripe-patterned surfaces is numerically investigated using a …

We investigate the underlying mechanism of capillary force balance at the contact line. In
particular, we offer a novel approach to describe and quantify the capillary force on the liquid …

In this paper, a three-dimensional thermal multiphase lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is
established to simulate droplet evaporation on heterogeneous surfaces, which employs an …

Understanding and controlling the motion of the contact line is of critical importance for
surface science studies as well as many industrial engineering applications. In this work, we …

Hypothesis Droplet wetting on a solid substrate is affected by the surface heterogeneity.
Introducing patterned wettability on the solid substrate is expected to engender anisotropic …

Hypothesis When a droplet starts sliding on a solid surface, the droplet-solid friction force
develops in a manner comparable to the solid–solid friction force, showing a static regime …

The evaporation-induced deposition pattern of the linear diblock copolymer solution has
attracted attention in recent years. Given its critical applications, we study deposition …

The evaporation processes of sessile droplets on both heated flat and structured
hydrophobic surfaces are numerically studied by using a thermal multi-phase lattice …

Droplet evaporation on heterogeneous or patterned surfaces has numerous potential
applications, for example, inkjet printing. The effect of surface heterogeneities on the …