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8290477 Trends in work-related mental ill-health mapped to the health and safety executive management standards Open

Matthew Gittins, Zipporah Iheozor‐Ejiofor, Mel Carder, David Fishwick, Martin Seed , et al. · 2025

8290541 Early investigation of post COVID trends in work-related ill-health from the UK’s reporting schemes Open

Matthew Gittins, Zipporah Iheozor‐Ejiofor, Mel Carder, David Fishwick, Ruth Wiggans , et al. · 2025

Multiple equilibria enables tunable wetting of droplets on patterned liquid surfaces Open

Xitong Zhang, Hongyu Zhao, Jack R. Panter, Glen McHale, Gary G. Wells , et al. · 2025

Patterning solid surfaces with varying wettability is important to manage droplets in microfluidics, heat transfer, and printing. Solid surface roughness poses fundamental limitations including contact-line pinning and solid friction. Here…

Characterization of Water Adhesion of PCL and PLCL Electrospun Fiber Mats and Their Correlation to Wettability Open

Gabriele Livi, Faraz Fazal, Hernán Barrio‐Zhang, Hongyu Zhao, Glen McHale , et al. · 2025

The study of water wettability is crucial in agriculture, heat exchange, and biomedical applications; however, water adhesion receives limited attention despite being distinct from wettability and lateral pinning forces. Water adhesion is …

Long-Term Antibiofilm Efficacy of Slippery Covalently Attached Liquid-like Surfaces in Dynamic and Static Culture Conditions Open

Yufeng Zhu, Glen McHale, Hernán Barrio‐Zhang, Rui Han, Gary G. Wells , et al. · 2025

This study explores the antibiofilm potential of slippery covalently attached liquid-like surfaces, revealing their remarkable ability to inhibit biofilm formation over extended periods, regardless of their hydrophobic or hydrophilic natur…

Multiple Equilibria Enables Tunable Wetting of Droplets on Patterned Liquid Surfaces Open

Xitong Zhang, Hongyu Zhao, Jack R. Panter, Glen McHale, Gary G. Wells , et al. · 2025

Patterning solid surfaces with varying wettability is important to manage droplets in microfluidics, heat transfer and printing. Solid surface roughness poses fundamental limitations including contact-line pinning and solid friction. Here,…

Comparative study on protocols to prepare slippery liquid-like PDMS coatings - pitfalls and time-savers Open

Isaac J. Gresham, Hernán Barrio‐Zhang, Jae Hyung Cho, Behrooz Khatir, Gary G. Wells , et al. · 2025

Slippery covalently attached liquid surfaces (SCALS, also called quasi-liquid surfaces, liquid-like surfaces, and slippery omniphobic covalently attached surfaces) have recently emerged as a new family of materials with many useful propert…

Advances in Hybrid Icing and Frosting Protection Strategies for Optics, Lens, and Photonics in Cold Environments Using Thin‐Film Acoustic Waves Open

Hui Ling Ong, Zhangbin Ji, Luke Haworth, Yihao Guo, Jaime del Moral , et al. · 2025

Fogging, icing, or frosting on optical lenses, optics/photonics, windshields, vehicle/airplane windows, and solar panel surfaces have often shown serious safety concerns with hazardous conditions and impaired sight. Various active techniqu…

Super slippery surface concepts: A novel explanation for the dynamics and flow instability of glaciers and ice sheets Open

Rebecca McCerery, John Woodward, Glen McHale, Kate Winter · 2025

The driving mechanisms of glacier fast flow and the cyclical instability inherent in ice streams and surging glaciers are not fully understood. Current theories suggest fast flow is driven by glacier sliding and basal deformation facilitat…

Inside Back Cover, Volume 4, Number 1, January 2025 Open

Mengguang Ye, Yuxiang Xue, Hongyu Zhao, Patricia Hazelton, Yuxuan Ji , et al. · 2025

Programmable optical window bonding enabled 3D printing of high‐resolution transparent microfluidic devices for biomedical applications Open

Mengguang Ye, Yuxiang Xue, Hongyu Zhao, Patricia Hazelton, Yuxuan Ji , et al. · 2025

Traditional technologies for manufacturing microfluidic devices often involve the use of molds for polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) casting generated from photolithography techniques, which are time‐consuming, costly, and difficult to use in ge…

Online preparation for enhanced practice, confidence and learning, in chemical engineering experimental laboratories Open

Daniel Orejón, H.R. Linden, Ignacio Tudela-Montes, Tayebeh Ameri, Glen McHale · 2024

Tuning contact line dynamics on slippery silicone oil grafted surfaces for sessile droplet evaporation Open

Astrid Raynard, Anam Abbas, Steven Armstrong, Gary G. Wells, Glen McHale , et al. · 2024

Controlling the dynamics of droplet evaporation is critical to numerous fundamental and industrial applications. The three main modes of evaporation so far reported on smooth surfaces are the constant contact radius (CCR), constant contact…

Transforming Auxetic Metamaterials into Superhydrophobic Surfaces Open

Glen McHale, Andrew Alderson, Steven Armstrong, Shruti Mandhani, Mahya Meyari , et al. · 2024

Superhydrophobic materials are often inspired by nature, whereas metamaterials are engineered to have properties not usually occurring naturally. In both, the key to their unique properties is structure. Here, it is shown that a negative P…

Correction to “Dynamics of Droplets Impacting on Aerogel, Liquid Infused, and Liquid-Like Solid Surfaces” Open

Jack Dawson, Samual Coaster, Rui Han, Johannes Gausden, Hongzhong Liu , et al. · 2023

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Droplet Self-Propulsion on Slippery Liquid-Infused Surfaces with Dual-Lubricant Wedge-Shaped Wettability Patterns Open

Michele Pelizzari, Glen McHale, Steven Armstrong, Hongyu Zhao, Rodrigo Ledesma‐Aguilar , et al. · 2023

Young's equation is fundamental to the concept of the wettability of a solid surface. It defines the contact angle for a droplet on a solid surface through a local equilibrium at the three-phase contact line. Recently, the concept of a liq…

Wetting transitions on superhydrophobic auxetic metamaterials Open

Steven Armstrong, Glen McHale, Andrew Alderson, Shruti Mandhani, Mahya Meyari , et al. · 2023

Superhydrophobicity plays a pivotal role in numerous applications. Recently, we have demonstrated the potential of auxetic metamaterials in creating superhydrophobic materials with unique wetting properties. However, the superhydrophobic p…

Oil sands in glacial till as a driver of fast flow and instability in the former Laurentide Ice Sheet: Alberta, Canada Open

Rebecca McCerery, John Woodward, Kate Winter, Onoriode Esegbue, Martin Jones , et al. · 2023

Reconstructions of the southwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) from geomorphology have revealed complex cross‐cutting ice streams, indicative of surging and flow switching. This flow pattern and behaviour is distinct from the rest of the i…

Droplet evaporation on superhydrophobic surfaces Open

H. Yıldırım Erbil, Glen McHale · 2023

Over the last decades, a fabulous variety of synthetic superhydrophobic surfaces have been created, offering unique anti-wetting properties. A significant focus for these surfaces has been on their stay-dry and self-cleaning properties. Ho…

Cassie’s Law Reformulated: Composite Surfaces from Superspreading to Superhydrophobic Open

Glen McHale, Rodrigo Ledesma‐Aguilar, Chiara Neto · 2023

In 1948, Cassie provided an equation describing the wetting of a smooth, heterogeneous surface. He proposed that the cosine of the contact angle, θ_c, for a droplet on a composite surface could be predicted from a weighted averag…

Geochemical evidence for Alberta Oil Sands contamination in sediments remote to known oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada Open

Rebecca McCerery, Onoriode Esegbue, Martin Jones, Kate Winter, Glen McHale , et al. · 2023

Oil spills and natural oil seeps are sources of petrogenic hydrocarbons in soils and sediments. To determine the source of hydrocarbon contamination in the environment the geochemical signature of the contaminant needs to be characterised.…

Superhydrophobicity of Auxetic Metamaterials Open

Glen McHale, Andrew Alderson, Steven Armstrong, Shruti Mandhani, Mahya Meyari , et al. · 2023

Superhydrophobic materials are often inspired by nature, whereas metamaterials are engineered to have properties not usually found in naturally occurring materials. In both cases, the key that unlocks their unique properties is structure. …

Flexible and wearable acoustic wave technologies Open

Jian Zhou, Yihao Guo, Yong Wang, Zhangbin Ji, Qian Zhang , et al. · 2023

Flexible and wearable acoustic wave technology has recently attracted tremendous attention due to their wide-range applications in wearable electronics, sensing, acoustofluidics, and lab-on-a-chip, attributed to its advantages such as low …

Transition boiling bubble powered micro-engine using a Leidenfrost bearing Open

Prashant Agrawal, Anthony Buchoux, Gary G. Wells, Rodrigo Ledesma‐Aguilar, A.J. Walton , et al. · 2023

Impact Dynamics of Non-Newtonian Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces Open

Mehdi Hosseini, Luke Haworth, Hossein Abdolnezhad, Arash Khosravi, Prashant Agrawal , et al. · 2023

Droplet impact behavior on a solid surface is critical for many industrial applications such as spray coating, food production, printing, and agriculture. For all of these applications, a common challenge is to modify and control the impac…

Suppression of crystallization in saline drop evaporation on pinning-free surfaces Open

A McL Jenkins, Gary G. Wells, Rodrigo Ledesma‐Aguilar, Daniel Orejón, Steven Armstrong , et al. · 2023

For sessile droplets of pure liquid on a surface, evaporation depends on surface wettability, the surrounding environment, contact angle hysteresis, and surface roughness. For non-pure liquids, the evaporation characteristics are further c…

Reduction of ice adhesion on nanostructured and nanoscale slippery surfaces Open

Luke Haworth, Deyu Yang, Prashant Agrawal, Hamdi Torun, Xianghui Hou , et al. · 2023

Ice nucleation and accretion on structural surfaces are sources of major safety and operational concerns in many industries including aviation and renewable energy. Common methods for tackling these are active ones such as heating, ultraso…

Silicone Oil-Grafted Low-Hysteresis Water-Repellent Surfaces Open

Anam Abbas, Gary G. Wells, Glen McHale, Khellil Sefiane, Daniel Orejón · 2023

Wetting plays a major role in the close interactions between liquids and solid surfaces, which can be tailored by modifying the chemistry as well as the structures of the surfaces' outermost layer. Several methodologies, such as chemical v…

Dynamics of Droplets Impacting on Aerogel, Liquid Infused, and Liquid-Like Solid Surfaces Open

Jack Dawson, Samual Coaster, Rui Han, Johannes Gausden, Hongzhong Liu , et al. · 2022

Droplets impacting superhydrophobic surfaces have been extensively studied due to their compelling scientific insights and important industrial applications. In these cases, the commonly reported impact regime was that of complete rebound.…

Non-wetting of condensation-induced droplets on smooth monolayer suspended graphene with contact angle approaching 180 degrees Open

Haidong Wang, Daniel Orejón, Dongxing Song, Xing Zhang, Glen McHale , et al. · 2022

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