#surfacescience — Public Fediverse posts
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A drop of water is never just a drop.
#LeidenLog #Droplets #Physics #SurfaceScience #FluidDynamics #LeidenfrostEffect
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A drop of water is never just a drop.
#LeidenLog #Droplets #Physics #SurfaceScience #FluidDynamics #LeidenfrostEffect
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From boiling droplets to hydrogen storage, surface geometry matters.
A newly proposed carbon monolayer with engineered pores and lithium anchoring shows how nanoscale design can tune gas–surface interactions and molecular mobility.
🔗 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.6c00476
#SurfaceScience #Nanotechnology #2DMaterials #HydrogenStorage #MaterialsResearch
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Surface Shift: A New Design Challenges Old Wetting Ideas
Scientists create a new surface that can switch from repelling water to attracting it. This changes how we think about materials.
#SurfaceScience, #MaterialScience, #Hydrophobic, #Hydrophilic, #Innovation
https://newsletter.tf/new-surface-design-changes-liquid-behavior/
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This new surface can act like two different materials for liquids, unlike older surfaces that only did one thing.
#SurfaceScience, #MaterialScience, #Hydrophobic, #Hydrophilic, #Innovation
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Graphene may look “invisible” to water droplets at large scales, but at the nanoscale it quietly reshapes how water molecules align.
A new study reveals graphene acts like a charge mirror, redistributing electric fields without changing overall wettability.
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-04-graphene-mirror-droplets-dont.html
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Engineered capillary materials and even natural structures like wood can sustain vapor levitation and self-propel on hot surfaces, expanding Leidenfrost physics beyond droplets.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03255-x
#LeidenfrostEffect #Biomimetics #Physics #MaterialsScience #SurfaceScience
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Engineered capillary materials and even natural structures like wood can sustain vapor levitation and self-propel on hot surfaces, expanding Leidenfrost physics beyond droplets.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03255-x
#LeidenfrostEffect #Biomimetics #Physics #MaterialsScience #SurfaceScience
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From condensation to self-cleaning: electrostatically sprayed coatings trigger droplet jumping and limit water buildup.
Airflow and surface orientation also shape performance in cooling systems.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0312727
#Condensation #FluidPhysics #ThermalEngineering #SurfaceScience #HVAC
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Dynamic surface tension control in molten aluminum shows a controllable 15–30% fluctuation under extreme loads, paving the way for better wetting and interface management in engineering processes.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-37039-3
#MaterialsEngineering #SurfaceScience #MoltenMetal #PrecisionCasting #FluidMechanics
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Researchers made an egg-roll-shaped capillary tube with inclined microplates. Liquids move directionally based on contact angles, opening new ways to control fluids in microchannels.
🔗 https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/38/3/032004/3381856/A-curled-open-capillary-tube-for-selective
#Microfluidics #Capillarity #LiquidTransport #SurfaceScience #PhysicsOfFluids
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2026年03月23日に日本表面真空学会 #JVSS が【表面科学セミナー2026 実践！インフォマティクスと自律計測の基礎と応用】を開催。講演3件と個別相談会 (現地参加者のみ)。東京都大田区・大田区産業プラザPiOおよびオンラインにて。案内(PDF)は https://www.jvss.jp/_files/hyomen_seminar2026.pdf に、詳細は https://www.jvss.jp/ja/activities/06/detail/00024.html に。
#Seminar #SurfaceScience #MaterialsInformatics -
1月23日(金)13:00-17:20に、表面技術協会関西支部と日本表面真空学会 #JVSS 関西支部が『表面科学技術研究会2026』を開催。テーマは「PFAS規制の動向と代替技術の展望」。講演4件。大阪市城東区・大阪産業技術研究所およびオンラインにて。詳細は https://www.jvss.jp/chapter/kansai/hyoumengijutsu2026/ に。
#Seminar #SurfaceScience #PFAS -
By combining high-resolution electrostatic mapping with molecular dynamics simulations, we investigated the behavior of these surface-trapped ionic charges. We found that they spread across the surface with remarkable mobility. Their two-dimensional diffusion exceeds that of ions in bulk water, with the limiting factor being the friction between the ionic solvation shell and the solid.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505841122
#PNAS #MolecularDynamics #SurfaceScience #PhysicalChemistry#ComputationalChemistry