We study the behavior of a nanoparticle under electromigration on a nanopatterned surface. We show that electromigration allows one to control the wetting transitions of the nanoparticle. Suitable surface electromigration conditions to observe these transitions can be achieved with electric currents larger than 1 μA. Using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and analytical modeling, we determine th...

Wood I-joists are often left uncovered and exposed to the weather during construction, allowing the oriented strandboard and laminated veneer lumber in these systems to be adversely affected by water absorption. Manufacturers typically specify that these materials be protected from wetting, but this can be difficult in wetter climates. There are few studies examining the potential effects of we...

In this study the wetting behavior of converging-diverging and diverging-converging capillaries is investigated numerically using an in-house written, finite-element code. An interface tracking procedure based on the predicted change in the total liquid volume, to update the interface location, and Cox's formulation, to determine the dynamic contact angle and the interface shape, is proposed an...

in oil industry, spontaneous imbibition is an important phenomenon in recovery from fractured reservoirs which can be defined as spontaneous uptake of a wetting fluid into a porous solid. spontaneous imbibition involves both cocurrent and countercurrent flows. when a matrix block is partially covered by water, oil recovery is dominated by cocurrent imbibition i.e. the production of non wetting ...

Dynamic wetting on the flexible hydrophilic pillar-arrays is studied using large scale molecular dynamics simulations. For the first time, the combined effect of the surface topology, the intrinsic wettability and the elasticity of a solid on the wetting process is taken into consideration. The direction-dependent dynamics of both liquid and pillars, especially at the moving contact line (MCL),...

A thin quantum well called the wetting layer is created whenever self-assembled quantum dots are fabricated. The wetting layer is highly non-uniform, thereby producing potential uctuations that in uence the physics of the quantum dots. Here, we report several e ects that are caused by such uctuations. In particular, light-induced spectral di usion on a very long time scale and interdot excitati...

background: orally disintegrating tablets (odts) are a modern form of tablets that when placed in the oral cavity, disperses rapidly. these tablets have advantages, particularly good applications for children and old patients who have a complication in chewing or swallowing solid dosage forms. the aim of this study was to design, formulate, and evaluate the physicochemical properties of 5 mg mo...

The present work reports the fabrication process of micro lens for pinhole cameras using COMSOL Multiphysics®, by satisfying the wetting properties. Wetting means change of contact angle between the liquid and solid surface area. The wetting properties are clearly understood in terms of forces. The two immiscible fluids like conducting fluid and insulating fluid were taken for the formation of ...

The wetting layer formed by a phase-separated binary liquid mixture in contact with a glass substrate is observed to have a large nonequilibrium response in thickness to small temperature perturbations. An independent theoretical and physical picture is developed, which also provides a direct means of measuring the forces responsible for wetting and their effect on the dynamics of diffusion-lim...