Gas bubbles in aqueous media are common and inevitable in, for example, agriculture and
industrial processes. The behaviors of gas bubbles on solid interfaces, including generation …

More than one century ago, Lippmann found that capillary forces can be effectively
controlled by external electrostatic forces. As a simple example, by applying a voltage …

Many engineering and industrial technologies as well as biological processes are closely
related to surface wettability. The control of surface wettability attracts much attention due to …

The structure and interactions in electrolytes at high concentration have implications from
energy storage to biomolecular interactions. However, many experimental observations are …

Hypothesis Molecular dynamics (MD) may be used to investigate the velocity dependence of
both the microscopic and apparent dynamic contact angles (θ m and θ app). Methods We …

Air bubbles are a common occurrence in both natural and industrial settings and are a
significant topic in the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, and medicine. The physical …

Wetting is a prerequisite for coating a uniform layer of liquid onto a solid. Wetting failure and
air entrainment set the ultimate limit to coating speed. It is well known in the coating art that …

Ionic liquids (ILs) are a unique family of molecular liquids ('molten salts') that consist of a
combination of bulky organic cations coupled to inorganic or organic anions. The net result …

The efficacy of ionic liquids (ILs) as lubricant additives to a model base oil has been probed
at the nanoscale and macroscale as a function of IL concentration using the same materials …

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has been used to study the adsorption of two related
imidazolium ionic liquids: 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis (trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide …