This paper is derived from a training session prepared for COST P21. It is intended as an
introduction to superhydrophobicity to scientists who may not work in this area of physics or …

Wettability is a tendency for a liquid to spread on a solid substrate and is generally
measured in terms of the angle (contact angle) between the tangent drawn at the triple point …

Interest in wetting dynamics processes has immensely increased during the past 10–15
years. In many industrial and medical applications, some strategies to control drop …

Wetting of porous layers plays an important role in natural phenomena and in technical
applications, including cooling technologies, ink-jet printing, functionalization of textile fabric …

We briefly review recent advances in the hydrodynamic modeling of the dynamics of
droplets on adaptive substrates, in particular, solids that are covered by polymer brushes …

Growing thin, nanostructured layers on metallic surfaces is an attractive, new approach to
create superhydrophilic coatings on heat exchangers that enhance spray cooling heat …

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) produced by electron beam physical vapor deposition (EB-
PVD) or plasma spray (PS) usually suffer from molten calcium-magnesium-alumino-silicate …

There has been a substantial increase in the number of publications in the field of wetting
and spreading since 2010. This increase in the rate of publications can be attributed to the …

The design of porous scaffolds able to promote and guide cell proliferation, colonization,
and biosynthesis in three dimensions is key determinant in bone tissue engineering (bTE) …

We investigate the dynamics of a liquid droplet in contact with a surface of a porous structure
by means of the pore-scale level, fully resolved numerical simulations. The geometrical …