We review existing explanations for drop pinning and the origin of the force required to
initiate the sliding of a drop on a solid surface (depinning). Theories that describe these …

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 …

The paper surveys the variational thermodynamic approach, enabling defining and
predicting equilibrium contact angles. The approach enables considering 1D, 2D and 3D …

Omniphobic coatings effectively repelling water, oils, and other liquids are of great interest
and have a broad number of applications including self-cleaning, anti-icing surfaces …

Surface chemistry is a major factor that determines the wettability of materials, and devising
broadly applicable coating strategies that afford tunable and selective surface properties …

Hypothesis: It has been verified that a surface of single micro-scale structures with certain
roughness could exhibit petal effect. That is, water drops with a contact angle larger than …

This article presents the first experimental–computational study on the centrifugal
detachment of a compound droplet (eg, a primary water droplet cloaked by an immiscible …

In modern life, people face a wide number of sticky problems when adhesion is highly
undesirable: water and dirt stick to clothes, useful materials stick to the walls of their …

In this paper, we consider drops that are subjected to a gradually increasing lateral force
and follow the stages of the motion of the drops. We show that the first time a drop slides as …

Fluorinated motifs are promising for the engineering of repellent coatings, however, a
fundamental understanding of how to effectively bind these motifs to various substrates is …