The spreading dynamics of a droplet of pure liquid deposited on a rigid, nonsoluble
substrate has been extensively investigated. In a purely hydrodynamic description, the …

Many microfluidics devices, coating processes, or diphasic flows involve the motion of a
liquid meniscus on a wet wall. This motion induces a specific viscous force, that exhibits a …

We investigate the arrested spreading of room temperature droplets impacting flat ice. The
use of an icy substrate eliminates the nucleation energy barrier, such that a freeze front can …

We study the spreading of droplets in a near-critical phase-separated liquid mixture, using a
combination of experiments, lubrication theory and finite-element numerical simulations. The …

A thin liquid droplet spreads on a soft viscoelastic substrate with arbitrary rheology.
Lubrication theory is applied to the governing field equations in the liquid and solid domains …

Nanometer-thick supported films of polymer melts spontaneously form and spread around
sessile droplets that are deposited on oxidized silicon wafers. At steady state, the films …

For decades, two main facets of underwater oil spills have been explored extensively—the
rise of oil drops and resulting evolution of the oil slick at the air-water interface. We report on …

The spreading dynamics of a drop deposited on a superhydrophilic micropillar array are
qualitatively different from those on a smooth surface in that a thin fringe layer rapidly wicks …

The capillary levelling of cylindrical holes in viscous polystyrene films was studied using
atomic force microscopy as well as quantitative analytical scaling arguments based on thin …

This paper deals with the control of the net geometry of a printed object in the case of
powder-bed or particle bed binding technologies. We first measure and compare water …