Public Outreach & Press Coverage

  • TV report on a follow-up project on technical application of wetting physics related to the SPP 2171
    Hamburg Journal "Hamburg morgen: Strom mithilfe von Ebbe und Flut" (NDR Mediathek)
  • Article: Wie sich Tropfen bewegen
    Florian Geyer, Patrick M. Seiler, Doris Vollmer and Rüdiger Berger.
    Phys. Unserer Zeit 2, 90-96 (2019)
  • Article: Treffen sich drei Phasen...
    Hans-Jürgen Butt and Rüdiger Berger.
    Physik Journal 20 (4), 29-34 (2021)

Publications associated to the SPP 2171

2025

  • Understanding acid-glycol switchable emulsifiers on the molecular scale
    Encheva, E. Muratspahic, C.M. Saak, M. Zelenka, R.T. Woodward, and E.H.G. Backus.
    J. Colloid. Interface Sci. 680, 88-97 (2025) , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.10.171

  • z-GrAdd – Facile fabrication of various functional gradient materials by 3D printing using the gradual addition of reagents
    Niloofar Nekoonam, Seyed Alireza Sheikholeslami, Silvio Tisato, Pang Zhu, Ramin Montazeri, Zahra Hosneolfat and Dorothea Helmer.
    Addit. Manuf. 101, 104713 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2025.104713

  • Mesoscopic hydrodynamic model for spreading, sliding and coarsening compound drops
    Jan Diekmann and Uwe Thiele.
    Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 024002 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024207

  • Liquid slide electrification: advances and open questions
    Aaron D. Ratschow, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Steffen Hardt and Stefan A. L. Weber.
    Soft Matter 21, 7:1251-1262 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm01289e

  • Gradient dynamics model for drops of volatile liquid on a porous substrate
    Simon Hartmann and Uwe Thiele.
    Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 014003 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.014003

  • Modeling cellular self-organization in strain-stiffening hydrogels
    A. H. Erhardt, D. Peschka, C. Dazzi, L. Schmeller, A. Petersen, S. Checa, A. Münch, B. Wagner.
    Comp. Mechanics 75, 2:875-896 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-024-02536-7

2024

  • Wetting on Silicone Surfaces
    Lukas Hauer, Abhinav Naga, Rodrique G. M. Badr, Jonathan T. Pham, William S. Y. Wong and Doris Vollmer.
    Soft Matter 20, 5273-5295 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SM00346B

  • Gradient dynamics approach to reactive thin-film hydrodynamics
    Florian Voss and Uwe Thiele.
    J. Eng. Math. 149 , 2:1-40 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10665-024-10402-x

  • Binding potential and wetting behaviour of binary liquid mixtures on surfaces
    Mounirah Areshi, Dmitri Tseluiko, Uwe Thiele, Benjamin D. Goddard and Andrew J. Archer.
    Phys. Rev. E 109, 024801 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.024801

  • Controlled Trapping and Release of Droplets through Dynamically Reconfigurable Surfaces
    Anil Rajak and Jürgen Rühe.
    Adv. Mater. Interfaces 11, 14 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202301089

  • How Surface and Substrate Chemistry Affect Slide Electrification
    Benjamin Leibauer, Ognen Pop-Georgievski, Mariana D. Sosa, Yun Dong, Wolfgang Tremel, Hans-Jürgen Butt and Werner Steffen.
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 14:10073-10083 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c01015

  • Polymeric liquids in mesoporous photonic structures: From precursor film spreading to imbibition dynamics at the nanoscale
    Guido Dittrich, Luisa G. Cencha, Martin Steinhart, Ralf B. Wehrspohn, Claudio L. A. Berli, Raul Urteaga and Patrick Hube.
    J. Chem. Phys. 160, 064903 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0189633

  • Phase separation dynamics in wetting ridges of polymer surfaces swollen with oils of different viscosities
    Zhuoyun Cai, Rodrique G. M. Bard, Lukas Hauer, Krishnaroop Chaudhuri, Artem Skabeev,  Friederike Schmid and Jonathan T. Pham.
    Soft Matter 20, 36:7300-7312 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm00576g

  • Dynamics of Droplets Moving on Lubricated Polymer Brushes
    Rodrique G. M. Bard, Lukas Hauer, Doris Vollmer und Friederike Schmid.
    Langmuir 40, 24:12368-12380 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00400

  • Evaporation and viscous flow structure near a contact line pinned at a solid wedge
    Nikolai Kubochkin, Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman and Vladimir S. Ajaev.
    Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 094007 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.094007

  • Spreading of a viscoelastic drop on a solid substrate
    Peyman Rostami, Mathis Fricke, Simon Schubotz, Himanshu Patel, Reza Azizmalayeri and Günter K. Auernhammer.
    J. Fluid Mech. 988, A51, (2024). https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.450

  • Lattice Fundamental Measure Theory Beyond 0D Cavities: Dimers on Square Lattices
    Michael Zimmermann and Martin Oettel.
    J. Stat. Phys. 191, 145 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-024-03350-4

  • Binding potential and wetting behavior of binary liquid mixtures on surfaces
    Mounirah Areshi, Dmitri Tseluiko, Uwe Thiele, Benjamin D. Goddard and Andrew J. Archer.
    Phys. Rev. E 109, 024801 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.024801

  • Sharp-Interface Limits of Cahn–Hilliard Models and Mechanics with Moving Contact Lines
    Leonie Schmeller und Dirk Peschka.
    Multiscale Modeling & Simulation 22, 2:869-890 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1137/23M1546592

  • Role of Interaction Range and Buoyancy on the Adhesion of Vesicles
    Lucia Wesenberg and Marcus Müller.
    Langmuir 40, 7:3376-3390 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02715

  • Hyperconfined bio-inspired Polymers in Integrative Flow-Through Systems for Highly Selective Removal of Heavy Metal Ions
    Masaki Nakahata, Ai Sumiya, Yuka Ikemoto, Takashi Nakamura, Anastasia Dudin, Julius Schwieger, Akihisa Yamamoto, Shinji Sakai, Stefan Kaufmann and Motomu Tanaka.
    Nat. Com. 15, 5824 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49869-8

  • Deformation dynamics of nanopores upon water imbibition
    Juan Sanchez, Lars Dammann, Laura Gallardo, Zhuoqing Li, Michael Fröba, Robert H. Meißner, Howard A. Stone and Patrick Huber.
    PNAS, 121 (38) e2318386121 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318386121

  • Estimating sliding drop width via side-view features using recurrent neural networks
    Sajjad Shumaly, Fahimeh Darvish, Xiaomei Li, Oleksandra Kukharenko, Werner Steffen, Yanhui Guo, Hans-Jürgen Butt & Rüdiger Berger.
    Scientific Reports. vol. 14, 12033 (2024).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-62194-w

  • Thickness of Nanoscale Poly(Dimethylsiloxane) Layers Determines the Motion of Sliding Water Drops
    Xiaoteng Zhou, Yongkang Wang, Xiaomei Li, Pranav Sudersan, Katrin Amann-Winkel, Kaloian Koynov, Yuki Nagata, Rüdiger Berger, Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    Adv. Mater., 36, 2311470 (2024).  https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202311470

  • Contribution of wedge and bulk viscous forces in droplets moving on inclined surfaces
    Francisco Bodziony, Xiaomei Li, Mariana Yin, Rüdiger Berger, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Holger Marschall,
    Theor. Comput. Fluid Dyn. 38:583–601 (2024).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00162-024-00692-3

  • Slide electrification of drops at low velocities
    Chirag Hinduja, Hans-Jürgen Butt and Rüdiger Berger.
    Soft Matter, 20, 3349 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SM00019F

  • Controlling the dewetting morphologies of thin liquid films by switchable substrates
    Stefan Zitz, Andrea Scagliarini and Jens Harting.
    Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, L122001 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.L122001

  • Drops on Polymer Brushes: Advances in Thin-Film Modeling of Adaptive Substrates
    Simon Hartmann, Jan Diekmann, Daniel Greve and Uwe Thiele.
    Langmuir 40 (8) (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03313

  • Drops of volatile binary mixtures on brush-covered substrates
    Jan Diekmann and Uwe Thiele.
    Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2024). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjs/s11734-024-01169-4

  • Steering droplets on substrates with plane-wave wettability patterns and deformations
    Josua Grawitter and Holger Stark
    Soft Matter 20, 3161 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SM00213J

  • Surface charge density and induced currents by self-charging sliding drops
    Pravash Bista, Aaron D. Ratschow, Amy Z. Stetten, Hans-Jürgen Butt and Stefan A.L. Weber.
    Soft Matter 20, 5045 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm00205a

  • Enhancing Photoswitchable Wetting Properties of Hydrophobic Porous Spiropyran Copolymer Surfaces Through Surface Roughness Engineering
    Niloofar Nekoonam, Franziska Dreher, Fadoua Mayoussi, Pang Zhu, Ralf Thomann, Ramin Montazeri, Sagar Bhagwat, Leonhard Hambitzer and Dorothea Helmer.
    Adv. Mater. Interfaces 11 (34), 2400396 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400396

  • Biomolecular condensates mediate bending and scission of endosome membranes
    Yanning Wang, Shulin Li, Marcel Mokbel, Alexander I. May, Zizhen Liang, Yonglun Zeng, Weiqi Wang, Honghong Zhang, Feifei Yu, Katharina Sporbeck, Liwen Jiang, Sebastian Aland, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Roland L. Knorr and Xiaofeng Fang.
    Nature (2024), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07990-0

2023

  • Surface charge deposition by moving drops reduces contact angles
    Xiaomei Li, Aaron D. Ratschow, Steffen Hardt and Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228201 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.228201

  • Self-generated electrostatic forces of drops rebounding from hydrophobic surfaces
    Diego Dıaz, Xiaomei Li, Pravash Bista, Xiaoteng Zhou, Fahimeh Darvish, Hans-Jürgen Butt and Michael Kappl.
    Physics of Fluids 35, 017111 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0130343

  • Light-Responsive Conductive Surface Coatings on the Basis of Azidomethyl-PEDOT Electropolymer Films
    Anna Gibalova, Niklas B. Arndt, Luca Burg and Bart Jan Ravoo.
    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 15, 9:12363-12371 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c21995

  • Tuning the hydraulic resistance by swelling-induced buckling of membranes in high-aspect-ratio microfluidic devices
    Claas-Hendrik Stamp, Binyam Solomon, Friederike Lang, Efstathios Mitropoulosab and Thomas Pfohl.
    RSC Lab Chip 23, 16:3662-3670 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1039/d2lc01120d

  • Nonequilibrium configurations of swelling polymer brush layers induced by spreading drops of weakly volatile oil
    Özlem Kap, Simon Hartmann, Harmen Hoek, Sissi de Beer, Igor Siretanu, Uwe Thiele and Frieder Mugele.
    J. Chem. Phys. 158, 174903 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0146779

  • Arylazopyrazole-Modified Thiolactone Acrylate Copolymer Brushes for Tuneable and Photoresponsive Wettability of Glass Surfaces
    Niklas B. Arndt, Thorsten Adolphs, Heinrich F. Arlinghaus, Bastian Heidrich and Bart Jan Ravoo.
    Langmuir 39, 15:5342-5351 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c03400

  • Electrically switchable metallic polymer metasurface device with gel polymer electrolyte
    Derek de Jong, Julian Karst, Dominik Ludescher, Moritz Floess, Sophia Moell, Klaus Dirnberger, Mario Hentschel, Sabine Ludwigs, Paul V. Braun and Harald Giessen.
    Nanophotonics 12, 8:1397-1404 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0654

  • Molecular Kinetics and Wetting Dynamics of Self-Assembled Monolayers with Fluorinated Arylazopyrazoles
    Melanie Golomb, Niklas B. Arndt, Christian Honnigfort, Billura Shakhayeva, Bart Jan Ravoo and Björn Braunschweig.
    J. Phys. Chem. 127, 31:15316-15325 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c02472

  • Electrochemical and Solvent-Driven Swelling in a Conducting Polymer Film
    Loren G. Kaake, Bruno Gompf and Sabine Ludwigs.
    Chem. Mater. 35, 11:4532-4540 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00849

  • Nanodroplets wetting an elastic half-space
    Nikolai Kubochkin and Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman.
    Soft Matter 19, 27:5050-5067 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sm00136a

  • Partial and complete wetting of thin films with dynamic contact angle
    Dirk Peschka.
    Physics of Fluids 35, 041705 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0146538

  • Wettability gradient-driven droplets with an applied external force
    Leon Topp, Lena Haddick, Dominik Mählmann and Andreas Heuer.
    J. Chem. Phys. 158, 174703 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0146910

  • Viscous to inertial coalescence of liquid lenses: A lattice Boltzmann investigation
    Thomas Scheel, Qingguang Xie, Marcello Sega and Jens Harting.
    Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 074201 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.074201

  • A simulation method for the wetting dynamics of liquid droplets on deformable membranes
    M. Mokbel, D. Mokbel, S. Liese, C.A. Weber, S. Aland
    SIAM Scientific Computing (2023), https://doi.org/10.1137/24M1641142

  • Deep learning to analyze sliding drops
    Sajjad Shumaly, Fahimeh Darvish, Xiaomei Li, Alexander Saal, Chirag Hinduja, Werner Steffen, Oleksandra Kukharenko, Hans-Jürgen Butt, and Rüdiger Berger.
    Langmuir 38, 14635-14643 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02847

  • Tuning static drop friction
    Alexandre Laroche, Abhinav Naga, Chirag Hinduja, Azadeh Aghili Sharifi, Alexander Saal, Hyeonjin Kim, Nan Gao, Sanghyuk Wooh, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Rüdiger Berger and Doris Vollmer.
    Droplet, (2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/dro2.42

  • Gradient flows for coupling order parameters and mechanics
    Leonie Schmeller and Dirk Peschka.
    SIAM J. Appl. Math. 83 (1) (2023). https://doi.org/10.1137/22M148478X

  • Modulation of wetting of stimulus responsive polymer brushes by lipid vesicles: experiments and simulations
    Felix Weissenfeld, Lucia Wesenberg, Masaki Nakahata, Marcus Müller and Motomu Tanaka.
    Soft Matter 19 (14) (2023). https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM01673G

  • Phase separation in wetting ridges of sliding drops on soft and swollen surfaces
    Lukas Hauer, Zhuoyun Cai, Artem Skabeev, Doris Vollmer and Jonathan T. Pham.
    Physical Review Letters 130 (5) (2023) https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.130.058205

  • Controllable wetting transitions on photoswitchable physical gels
    Niloofar Nekoonam, Grace Vera, Andreas Goralczyk, Fadoua Mayoussi, Pang Zhu, David Böcherer, Ahmad Shakeel and Dorothea Helmer.
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2023) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c22979

  • Moving wetting ridges on ultrasoft gels
    Hansol Jeon, Youchuang Chao and Stefan Karpitschka.
    Phys. Rev. E 108, 024611 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.024611

  • Fast-release kinetics of a pH-responsive polymer detected by dynamic contact angles
    Xiaomei Li, Krisada Auepattana-Aumrung, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Daniel Crespy and Rüdiger Berger.
    Chemical Physics Letters 158, 144901 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0142928

  • Kinetic drop friction
    Xiaomei Li, Francisco Bodziony, Mariana Yin, Holger Marschall, Rüdiger Berger and Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    Nature Communications 14, 4571 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40289-8

  • Stick-slip dynamics in the forced wetting of polymer brushes
    Daniel Greve, Simon Hartmann and Uwe Thiele.
    Soft Matter 19 (22) (2023). https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/sm/d3sm00104k

  • Impact of noise on spinodal dewetting of liquid-liquid films
    Roghayeh Shiri, Leonie Schmeller, Dirk Peschka, Ralf Seemann and Barbara Wagner.
    Com. Phys. 6 (109) (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01208-x

2022

  • Repulsive interactions of eco-corona-covered microplastic particles quantitatively follow modelling of polymer brushes
    Thomas Witzmann, Anja F. R. M. Ramsperger, Simon Wieland, Christian Laforsch, Holger Kress, Andreas Fery and Günter K. Auernhammer.
    Langmuir 38, 29:8748-8756 (2022). https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c03204

  • Adsorption of CTAB on Sapphire‑c at High pH: Surface and Zeta Potential Measurements Combined with Sum-Frequency and Second-Harmonic Generation
    Ahmed Abdelmonem, Yingchun Zhang, Björn Braunschweig, Dana Glikman, Armin Rumpel, Wolfgang Peukert, Tajana Begović Xiandong Liu and Johannes Lützenkirchen.
    Langmuir 38, 11:3380-3391 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c03069

  • High Hysteresis Suspended Wetting State: A Wetting Regime for Controlled Trapping of Drops on Micro-Trench Covered Surfaces
    Anil Rajak and Jürgen Rühe.
    Adv. Mater. Interfaces 9, 2201018 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202201018

  • Cloaking Transition of Droplets on Lubricated Brushes
    Rodrique G. M. Badr, Lukas Hauer, Doris Vollmer and Friederike Schmid.
    J. Phys. Chem. B 126, 36:7047-7058 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c04640

  • Liquid film rupture beyond the thin-film equation: A multi-component lattice Boltzmann study
    Francesca Pelusi, Marcello Sega and Jens Harting.
    Physics of Fluids 34, 062109 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0093043

  • Ion-specific nanoscale compaction of cysteine-modified poly(acrylic acid) brushes revealed by 3D scanning force microscopy with frequency modulation detection
    Akihisa Yamamoto, Takahiko Ikarashi, Takeshi Fukuma, Ryo Suzuki, Masaki Nakahata, Kazuki Miyata, Motomu Tanaka.
    Nanoscale Adv. 4, 23:5027-5036 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1039/d2na00350c

  • An explicit model to extract viscoelastic properties of cells from AFM force-indentation curves
    Shada Abuhattum, Dominic Mokbel, Paul Müller, Despina Soteriou, Jochen Guck and Sebastian Aland.
    iScience, Vol. 25, Issue 4, (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104016

  • Pinning forces of sliding drops at defects
    Alexander Saal, Benedikt B. Straub, Hans Juergen Butt and Rüdiger Berger.
    Europhys. Lett. 139, 47001 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ac7acf

  • Nanoscale Capillary Bridges Control the Adhesion of Ice: Implications for Anti-Icing via Hydrophobic Coatings
    Ngoc N. Nguyen, Sina Davani, Ramazan Asmatulu, Michael Kappl, Rüdiger Berger and Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    ACS Applied Nano Materials 5, 19017 - 19024 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c04879

  • Scanning Drop Friction Force Microscopy
    Chirag Hinduja, Alexandre Laroche, Sajjad Shumaly, Yujiao Wang, Doris Vollmer, Hans-Jürgen Butt, and Rüdiger Berger.
    Langmuir 38, 14635-14643 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02046

  • Adaptation and Recovery of a Styrene-Acrylic Acid Copolymer Surface to Water
    Xiaomei Li, Mirela Encheva, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Ellen H.G. Backus and Rüdiger Berger.
    Macromol. Rapid Commun. 43, 2100733 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.202100733

  • Soft wetting with (a)symmetric shuttleworth effect
    C. Henkel, M. H. Essink, Tuong Hoang, G. J. van Zwieten, E. H. van Brummelen, U. Thiele and J.H. Snoeijer.
    Proc. R. Soc. A. 478:20220132 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0132

  • Smart mechanically tunable surfaces with shape memory behavior and wetting-programmable topography
    Gissela Constante, Indra Apsite, Paul Auerbach, Sebastian Aland, Dennis Schönfeld, Thorsten Pretsch, Pavel Milkin and Leonid Ionov.
    Am. Chem. Soc. 14 (17) (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c01078

  • Edge wetting: Steady state of rivulets in wedges
    Nikolai Kubochkin and Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman.
    Physics of Fluids 34, 042112 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086967

  • Dynamic wetting of photo-responsive arylazopyrazole monolayers is controlled by the molecular kinetics of the monolayer
    Christian Honnigfort, Leon Topp, Natalia García Rey, Andreas Heuer and Björn Braunschweig.
    J. Am. chem. Soc. 144 (9) (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c12832

  • Direct force measurement of microscopic droplets pulled along soft surfaces
    Hamza K. Khattak, Stefan Karpitschka, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Kari Dalnoki-Veress
    Nat. Com. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31910-3

  • How water wets and self-hydrophilizes nanopatterns of physisorbed hydrocarbons
    Diego Díaz, Ole Nickel, Nicolás Moraga, Rodrigo E. Catalán, María José Retamal, Hugo Zelada, Marcelo Cisternas, Robert Meißner, Patrick Huber, Tomas P. Corrales et al.
    J. Colloid Interface Sci. 606, 57-66 (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2021.07.121

  • Smectic free-standing films under fast lateral compression
    Christoph Klopp, Torsten Trittel, Kirsten Harth and Ralf Stannarius.
    Soft Matter (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1sm01207j

  • Self-assembled monolayers of arylazopyrazoles on glass and silicon oxide: Photoisomerization and photoresponsive wettability
    Niklas B. Arndt, Friederike Schlüter, Marcus Böckmann, Thorsten Adolphs, Heinrich F. Arlinghaus, Nikos L. Doltsinis and Bart Jan Ravoo.
    Langmuir (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02651

  • Linear shrinkage of hydrogel coatings exposed to flow: interplay between dissolution of water and advective transport
    Philipp Baumli, Lukas Hauer, Emanuela Lorusso, Azadeh Sharifi Aghili, Katharina I. Hegner, Maria D'Acunzi, Jochen S. Gutmann, Burkhard Dünweg and Doris Vollmer.
    Soft Matter 18 (2), 365-371 (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1sm01297e

  • A kinetic model of a polyelectrolyte gel undergoing phase separation
    Giulia L. Celora, Matthew G. Hennessy, Andreas Münch, Barbara Wagner and Sarah L. Waters.
    J. Mech. Phys. Solids (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104771

  • Mechanofluorescent polymer brush surfaces that spatially resolve surface solvation
    Quinn A. Besford, Holger Merlitz, Simon Schubotz, Huaisong Yong, Soosang Chae, Max J Schnepf, Alessia C. G. Weiss, Günter K. Auernhammer, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Petra Uhlmann et al.
    ACS nano (2022) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c00277

  • Cryofouling avoidance in the antarctic scallop adamussium colbecki
    William S. Y. Wong, Lukas Hauer, Paul A. Cziko and Konrad Meister.
    Communications Biology 5 (1) (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03023-6

  • Capillary-driven flow in corner geometries
    Nikolai Kubochkin and Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman.
    Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. p. 101575 (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2022.101575

  • Variational Approach to Fluid-Structure Interaction via GENERIC
    Dirk Peschka, Andrea Zafferi, Luca Heltai and Marita Thomas.
    J. Non-Equilib. Thermodyn. (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jnet-2021-0081

  • Dynamic wetting of photoresponsive arylazopyrazole monolayers is controlled by the molecular kinetics of the monolayer
    Christian Honnigfort, Leon Topp, Natalia García Rey, Andreas Heuer and Björn Braunschweig.
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c12832

  • GENERIC framework for reactive fluid flows
    Andrea Zafferi, Dirk Peschka and Marita Thomas.
    J. Appl. Math. Mech. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.202100254

  • Model hierarchies and higher-order discretisation of time-dependent thin-film free boundary problems with dynamic contact angle
    Dirk Peschka and Luca Heltai.
    J. Comput. Phys. p. 111325 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111325

  • Stick-slip contact line motion on Kelvin-Voigt model substrates
    Dominic Mokbel, Sebastian Aland and Stefan Karpitschka.
    Europhys. Lett. 139 (3) (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ac6ca6

  • Swalbe.jl: A lattice Boltzmann solver for thin film hydrodynamics
    Stefan Zitz, Manuel Zellhöfer, Andrea Scagliarini and Jens Harting.
    J. Open Source Softw. 7 (77), 4312 (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.04312

  • Wetting dynamics under periodic switching on different scales: characterization and mechanisms
    Leon Topp, Moritz Stieneker, Svetlana V Gurevich and Andreas Heuer.
    Soft Matter 18 (36), 6974-6986 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM01023B

  • Resolving the microscopic hydrodynamics at the moving contact line
    Amal K. Giri, Paolo Malgaretti, Dirk Peschka and Marcello Sega.
    Phys. Rev. Fluids 7 (10), L102001 (2022). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.L102001

  • Spontaneous charging affects the motion of sliding drops
    Xiaomei Li, Pravash Bista, Amy Z. Stetten, Henning Bonart, Maximilian T. Schür, Steffen Hardt, Francisco Bodziony, Holger Marschall, Alexander Saal, Xu Deng, Rüdiger Berger, Stefan A.L. Weber and Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    Nature Physics 18, 713 - 719 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01563-6

  • Contact angle hysteresis
    Hans-Jürgen Butt, Jie Liu, Kaloian Koynov, Benedikt Straub, Chirag Hinduja, Ilia Roismann, Rüdiger Berger, Xiaomei Li, Doris Vollmer, Werner Steffen and Michael Kappl.
    Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2022.101574

2021

  • Super liquid repellent coatings against the everyday life wear: Heating, freezing, scratching
    Maria D'Acunzi, Azadeh Sharifi-Aghili, Katharina Irene Hegner and Doris Vollmer.
    iScience 24, 102460 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102460

  • Ultrafast Bubble Bursting by Superamphiphobic Coatings
    Katharina I. Hegner, William S. Y. Wong and Doris Vollmer.
    Adv. Mater. 33,  2101855 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202101855

  • Light-induced switching of polymer-surfactant interactions enables controlled polymer thermoresponsive behaviour
    Eric Weißenborn, Jörn Droste, Michael Hardt, Daniel Schlattmann, Celine Tennagen, Christian Honnigfort, Monika Schönhoff, Michael Ryan Hansen and Björn Braunschweig.
    Chem. Commun. 57, 47:5826-5829 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cc02054d

  • A unified numerical model for wetting of soft substrates
    Sebastian Aland and Dominic Mokbel.
    Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng. 122 (4), 903-918 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.6567

  • Adaptation of a styrene–acrylic acid copolymer surface to water
    Xiaomei Li, Simon Silge, Alexander Saal, Gunnar Kircher, Kaloian Koynov, Rüdiger Berger and Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    Langmuir 37 (4), 1571-1577 (2021). PMID: 33439030 https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c03226

  • How a water drop removes a particle from a hydrophobic surface
    Abhinav Naga, Anke Kaltbeitzel, William S. Y. Wong, Lukas Hauer, Hans-Jürgen Butt and Doris Vollmer.
    Soft Matter 17 (7), 1746-1755 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0sm01925a

  • The challenge of lubricant-replenishment on lubricant-impregnated surfaces
    Philipp Baumli, Maria D'Acunzi, Katharina I. Hegner, Abhinav Naga, William S. Y. Wong, Hans-Jürgen Butt and Doris Vollmer.
    Adv. Colloid Interface Sci. 287, 102329 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2020.102329

  • A ternary phase-field model for wetting of soft elastic structures
    Sebastian Aland and Paul Auerbach.
    Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng. 122 (16), 4114-4128 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.6694

  • Coalescence of islands in freely suspended smectic films
    Zoom H. Nguyen, K. Harth, A. M. Goldfain, C. S. Park, J. E. Maclennan, M. A. Glaser and N. A. Clark.
    Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033143 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033143

  • Laser-excited elastic guided waves reveal the complex mechanics of nanoporous silicon
    Marc Thelen, Nicolas Bochud, Manuel Brinker, Claire Prada and Patrick Huber.
    Nat. Commun 12 (1), 1-10 (2021). Https://tore.tuhh.de/handle/11420/8156 https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23398-0

  • Lattice Boltzmann simulations of stochastic thin film dewetting
    Stefan Zitz, Andrea Scagliarini and Jens Harting.
    Phys. Rev. E 104 (3), 034801 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreve.104.034801

  • Frost spreading and pattern formation on microstructured surfaces
    Lukas Hauer, William S. Y. Wong, Azadeh Sharifi-Aghili, Lou Kondic and Doris Vollmer.
    Phys. Rev. E 104, 044901 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.044901

  • Gradient-dynamics model for liquid drops on elastic substrates
    Christopher Henkel, Jacco H. Snoeijer and Uwe Thiele.
    Soft Matter 17, 10359-10375 (2021). https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D1SM01032H Corresponding data can be found on zenodo under http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5607074

  • Pinning-induced folding-unfolding asymmetry in adhesive creases
    Michiel A. J. van Limbeek, Martin H. Essink, Anupam Pandey, Jacco H. Snoeijer and Stefan Karpitschka.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 028001 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.028001

  • Surface force-mediated dynamics of droplets spreading over wetting films
    Nikolai Kubochkin and Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman.
    Phys. Fluids 33 (12), 122107 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0073142

  • Wetting at nanoscale: Effect of surface forces and droplet size
    Nikolai Kubochkin and Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman.
    Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 093603 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.093603

  • Memory effects in polymer brushes showing co-nonsolvency effects
    Simon Schubotz, Christian Honnigfort, Saghar Nazari, Andreas Fery, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Petra Uhlmann, Björn Braunschweig and Günter K. Auernhammer.
    Adv. Colloid Interface Sci. 294, 102442 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2021.102442

  • FRET-integrated polymer brushes for spatially resolved sensing of changes in polymer conformation
    Quinn A. Besford, Huaisong Yong, Holger Merlitz, Andrew J. Christofferson, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Petra Uhlmann and Andreas Fery.
    Angew. Chem. - Int. Ed. 60 (30), 16600-16606 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202104204

  • Super liquid repellent surfaces for anti-foaming and froth management
    William SY Wong, Abhinav Naga, Lukas Hauer, Philipp Baumli, Hoimar Bauer, Katharina I Hegner, Maria D’Acunzi, Anke Kaltbeitzel, Hans-Jürgen Butt and Doris Vollmer.
    Nat. Commun 12 (1), 1-11 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25556-w

  • The force required to detach a rotating particle from a liquid-fluid interface
    Abhinav Naga, Hans-Jürgen Butt and Doris Vollmer.
    Langmuir 37 (44), 13012-13017 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02085

  • How frost forms and grows on lubricated micro-and nanostructured surfaces
    Lukas Hauer, William SY Wong, Valentina Donadei, Katharina I Hegner, Lou Kondic and Doris Vollmer.
    ACS nano 15 (3), 4658-4668 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c09152

  • Controllable capillary assembly of magnetic ellipsoidal Janus particles into tunable rings, chains and hexagonal lattices
    Qingguang Xie and Jens Harting.
    Adv. Mater. 33 (8), 2006390 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202006390

  • Antisurfactant (autophobic) behavior of superspreader surfactant solutions
    Bijoy Bera, Ellen H. G. Backus, Odile Carrier, Mischa Bonn, Noushine Shahidzadeh and Daniel Bonn.
    Langmuir 37 (20), 6243-6247 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00475

  • One-step synthesis of a durable and liquid-repellent poly(dimethylsiloxane) coating
    Jie Liu, Yuling Sun, Xiaoteng Zhou, Xiaomei Li, Michael Kappl, Werner Steffen and Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    Adv Mater 33 (23), 2100237 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202100237

  • Capillary torque on a particle rotating at an interface
    Abhinav Naga, Doris Vollmer and Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    Langmuir 37 (24), 7457-7463 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00851

  • Reconsidering power functional theory
    James F. Lutsko and Martin Oettel.
    J. Chem. Phys. 155 (9), 094901 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0055288

  • Droplets on substrates with oscillating wettability
    Josua Grawitter and Holger Stark.
    Soft Matter 17, 9469 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SM01113H

  • Steering droplets on substrates using moving steps in wettability
    Josua Grawitter and Holger Stark.
    Soft Matter 17, 2454 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SM02082F

  • The dynamics of a collapsing polyelectrolyte gel
    Giulia L. Celora, Matthew G. Hennessy, Andreas Münch, Barbara Wagner and Sarah L. Waters.
    SIAM J. Appl. Math. 83 (3) (2021). https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/21M1419726

  • Sharp-interface problem of the ohta-kawasaki model for symmetric diblock copolymers
    Amlan K Barua, Ray Chew, Shuwang Li, John Lowengrub, Andreas Münch and Barbara Wagner.
    J. Comp. Phys. 481 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112032

  • Multiscale perspective on wetting on switchable substrates: mapping between microscopic and mesoscopic models
    Moritz Stieneker, Leon Topp, Svetlana Gurevich and Andreas Heuer.
    Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 013902 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.013902

  • Dendronized oligoethylene glycols with phosphonate tweezers for cell-repellent coating of oxide surfaces: coarse-scale and nanoscopic interfacial forces
    Julian Czajor, Wasim Abuillan, Dinh Vu Nguyen, Christopher Heidebrecht, Evan A. Mondarte, Oleg V. Konovalov, Tomohiro Hayashi, Delphine Felder-Flesch, Stefan Kaufmanna and Motomu Tanaka.
    PSC Adv. 11, 29:17727-17733 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ra02571f

2020

  • A cyclodextrin surfactant for stable emulsions with an accessible cavity for host-guest complexation
    Friederike Schlüter, Marlena M. Bela, Dana Gilkmanm Björn Braunschweig and Bart Jan Ravoo.
    chem. Commun. 56, 98:15434-15437 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cc06657e

  • Ion-Mediated Cross-linking of Biopolymers Confined at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces Probed by In Situ High-Energy Grazing Incidence X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
    Federico Amadei, Judith Thoma, Julian Czajor, Esther Kimmle, Akihisa Yamamoto, Wasim Abuillan, Oleg V. Konovalov, Yuriy Chushkin and Motomu Tanaka.
    J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 40:8937-8942 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c07056

  • Self-similar liquid lens coalescence
    Michiel A. Hack, Walter Tewes, Qingguang Xie, Charu Datt, Kirsten Harth, Jens Harting and Jacco H. Snoeijer.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 (19), 194502 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.194502

  • Intermittent flow and transient congestions of soft spheres passing narrow orifices
    Kirsten Harth, Jing Wang, Tamás Börzsönyi and Ralf Stannarius.
    Soft Matter 16 (34), 8013-8023 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0sm00938e

  • Drop impact on hot plates: contact times, lift-off and the lamella rupture
    Sang-Hyeon Lee, Kirsten Harth, Maaike Rump, Minwoo Kim, Detlef Lohse, Kamel Fezzaa and Jung Ho Je.
    Soft Matter 16, 7935-7949 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0SM00459F

  • Dynamics of self-propelled particles passing a bottleneck
    Mahdieh Mohammadi, Kirsten Harth, Dmitry Puzyrev, Tina Hanselka, Torsten Trittel and Ralf Stannarius.
    New J. Phys. 22 (12), 123025 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/abcc1d

  • Gradient dynamics model for drops spreading on polymer brushes
    Uwe Thiele and Simon Hartmann.
    Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 229 (10), 1819-1832 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-900231-2

  • Precursor film spreading during liquid imbibition in nanoporous photonic crystals
    Luisa G. Cencha, Guido Dittrich, Patrick Huber, Claudio L. A. Berli and Raul Urteaga.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (23), 234502 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.234502

  • Topological point defects of liquid crystals in quasi-two-dimensional geometries
    Kirsten Harth and Ralf Stannarius.
    Front. Phys. 8, 112 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2020.00112

  • Capillary balancing: Designing frost-resistant lubricant-infused surfaces
    William S. Y. Wong, Katharina I. Hegner, Valentina Donadei, Lukas Hauer, Abhinav Naga and Doris Vollmer.
    Nano Lett. 20 (12), 8508-8515 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02956

  • Adaptive wetting of polydimethylsiloxane
    William S. Y. Wong, Lukas Hauer, Abhinav Naga, Anke Kaltbeitzel, Philipp Baumli, Rüdiger Berger, Maria D‘Acunzi, Doris Vollmer and Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    Langmuir 36 (26), 7236-7245 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00538

  • Microdroplet contaminants: When and why superamphiphobic surfaces are not self-cleaning
    William S. Y. Wong, Tomas P. Corrales, Abhinav Naga, Philipp Baumli, Anke Kaltbeitzel, Michael Kappl, Periklis Papadopoulos, Doris Vollmer and Hans-Jürgen Butt.
    ACS Nano 14 (4), 3836-3846 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b08211

  • Phase separation in swelling and deswelling hydrogels with a free boundary
    Matthew G Hennessy, Andreas Münch and Barbara Wagner.
    Phys. Rev. E 101 (3), 032501 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreve.101.032501

  • Equilibrium orientation and adsorption of an ellipsoidal Janus particle at a fluid-fluid interface
    Florian Günther, Qingguang Xie and Jens Harting.
    Colloids and Interfaces 4 (4), 55 (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/colloids4040055

  • Specific localisation of ions in bacterial membranes unravels physical mechanism of effective bacteria killing by sanitiser
    Judith Thoma, Wasim Abuillan, Ippei Furikado, Taichi Habe, Akihisa Yamamoto, Simone Gierlich, Stefan Kaufmann, Klaus Brandenburg, Thomas Gutsmann, Oleg Konovalov, Shigeto Inoue and Motomu Tanaka
    Scientific Reports 10, 12302 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69064-1

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Preprints associated to the SPP 2171

  • The role of substrate mechanics in osmotic biofilm spreading
    Anthony Pietz, Karin John and Uwe Thiele.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05713(2024)

  • Collective Effects in Breath Figures
    Ambre Bouillant, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Bruno Andreotti.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.07608 (2024)

  • Soft Condensation
    Ambre Bouillant, Christopher Henkel, Uwe Thiele, Bruno Andreotti, Jacco H. Snoeijer
    arXvi preprint arXiv:2407.07624 (2024)

  • Local well-posedness and global stability of one-dimensional shallow water equations with surface tension and constant contact angle
    Jiaxu Li, Xin Liu, Dirk Peschka.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03911 (2024)

  • Shape of Polystyrene Droplets on Soft PDMS: Exploring the Gap Between Theory and Experiment at the Three-Phase Contact Line
    Khalil Remini, Leonie Schmeller, Dirk Peschka, Barbara Wagner, Ralf Seemann.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17439 (2024)

  • Weak solutions to a model for phase separation coupled with finite-strain viscoelasticity subject to external distortion
    Thomas Eiter, Leonie Schmeller.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07066 (2024)

  • Wetting ridge dissipation at large deformations
    Martin H. Essink, Stefan Karpitschka, Hamza K. Khattak, Kari Dalnoki-Veress, Harald van Brummelen, Jacco H. Snoeijer
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06344v1 (2024)

  • Structure and scaling laws of liquid/vapor interfaces close to the critical point
    György Hantal, Pál Jedlovszky and Marcello Sega.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00911 (2022)
  • Asymptotic study of the electric double layer at the interface of a polyelectrolyte gel and solvent bath
    Matthew G Hennessy, Giulia L Celora, Andreas Münch, Sarah L Waters and Barbara Wagner.
    WIAS Preprint (2022) https://dx.doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2751 
  • Electronic Laboratory Notebook: A lazy approach
    Simon Schubotz, Moritz Schubotz, Günter K Auernhammer.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.01058 (2022)

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