Droplet bouncing: Fundamentals, regulations, and applications

X Han, J Li, X Tang, W Li, H Zhao, L Yang, L Wang - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet impact is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, daily life, and industrial processes. It
is thus crucial to tune the impact outcomes for various applications. As a special outcome of …

[HTML][HTML] Micro-nano-fabrication of green functional materials by multiphase microfluidics for environmental and energy applications

C Qi, T Zhou, X Wu, K Liu, L Li, Z Liu, Z Chen… - Green Energy & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiphase microfluidic has emerged as a powerful platform to produce novel materials with
tailor-designed functionalities, as microfluidic fabrication provides precise controls over the …

Coalescence of immiscible droplets in liquid environments

H Xu, T Wang, Z Che - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Droplet coalescence process is important in many applications and has been
studied extensively when two droplets are surrounded by gas. However, the coalescence …

Dynamics of non-coalescence in unequal sized, conducting multi-droplet system suspended in an insulating medium under an electric field

S Roy, V Anand, RM Thaokar - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
An intriguing experimental observation in electrocoalescence of water-in-oil emulsions is the
occurrence of a very low critical electric field, beyond which chaining of droplets and …

Coalescence dynamic response of an aqueous droplet at an oil-water interface under a steady electric field

B Li, X Dou, K Yu, Y Huang, W Zhang, H Xu… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The electrocoalescence of an aqueous droplet at the oil-water interface in the presence of
externally direct current electric fields was numerically analyzed with the finite element …

Microfluidic study of the electrocoalescence of aqueous droplets in crude oil

T Leary, M Yeganeh, C Maldarelli - ACS omega, 2020 - ACS Publications
In electrocoalescence, an electric field is applied to a dispersion of conducting water
droplets in a poorly conducting oil to force the droplets to merge in the direction of the field …

Electrohydrodynamics of droplets and jets in multiphase microsystems

C Qi, Y Li, Z Liu, T Kong - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrohydrodynamics is among the most promising techniques for manipulating liquids in
microsystems. The electric stress actuates, generates, and coalesces droplets of small sizes; …

Multiple nanodroplets coalescence in the coupling of electric field and swirl centrifugal field: A molecular dynamics study

X Dou, M Ju, B Li, W **ang, Y Wu, Z Wang, J Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The study of nanodroplets coalescence is crucial for the development of nanofluid
technology and crude oil dehydration. The coalescence behavior of multiple nanodroplets in …

[PDF][PDF] The effect of changing interfacial tension on electrohydrodynamic processes in two-phase immiscible liquids

V Chirkov, G Utiugov, I Blashkov… - Int. J. Plasma Environ. Sci …, 2023 - ijpest.com
The interfacial tension is a crucial property of two-phase immiscible liquid. However, many
researchers are not aware about the fact that its value is far from being constant for many …

Mechanism of voltage frequency influence on vibration and discharge characteristics of water droplet attached to electrode

Y Liu, B Zhang, J He - Applied Physics Letters, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
The vibration and discharge phenomena of droplets in electric fields are the focus of various
applications, while the relationship between them has not been fully investigated. In this …