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Wednesday September 9

Contact lines and wettability

Session chair: Joël De Coninck

Lecture hall: Cocagne 2

15:45 – 16:00

Forces at a moving contact line

J.-C. Fernandez-Toledano, Terence D. Blake, and Joël De Coninck

University of Mons, Mons, Belgium

16:00 – 16:15

Liquid contact line on a soft gel in dip-coating geometry

T. Kajiya 1,2 , P. Brunet 1 , L. Royon 1 , A. Daerr 1 , M. Receveur 1 and L. Limat 1

1 Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

2 Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

16:15 – 16:30

Young’s Equation and Nanotubes

David Seveno 1 , Terry D. Blake 2 , and Joël de Coninck 2

1 Materials Engineering Department, KU Leuven, Belgium

2 University of Mons, Mons, Belgium

16:30 – 16:45

Enhancement of contact line mobility by infrared laser illumination

M.A. v. d. Tempel, H.M.J.M. Wedershoven, J.C.H. Zeegers, A.A. Darhuber

Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

16:45 – 17:00

Wetting on deformable coatings: experiments and modelling

M.Zhao 1,2 , J.Dervaux 3 , M.Roché 1 , L.Royon 1 , T.Narita 2 , F.Lequeux 2 , L.Limat 1

1 Université Paris Diderot – CNRS, Paris, France

2 CNRS/UPMC, ESPCI, Paris, France

3 CNRS and Univ. Paris Diderot, France

17:00 – 17:15

Contact line dynamics on a pseudo-brush

R. Lhermerout 1 , H. Perrin 2 , E. Rolley 1 , B. Andreotti 2 and K. Davitt 1

1 Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS, Paris, France

2 ESPCI, Paris, France

17:15 – 17:30

Solid surface geometry dependence of advancing contact angle

Yumiko Yoshitake, Yoshinori Itakura and Tsutomu Takahashi

Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan