Liquid Bridge

We have also shown, how a liquid bridge may be self propelled depending on the surface wettabilities, and angle between two surfaces bounding the bridge. More details can be found in the following references as a sample of our works.

Chen, A. Ponce-Torres, J.M. Montanero, A. Amirfazli, “Viscoelastic Liquid Bridge Breakup and Liquid Transfer Between two Surfaces” J. Colloid Interface Sci., 582, 1251–1256, 2021.

Ataei, H. Chen, A. Amirfazli, “Behavior of a Liquid Bridge between Nonparallel Hydrophobic Surfaces”, Langmuir, 33, 14674–14683, 2017.

Chen, N. Tabatabaei, A. Amirfazli, “Liquid bridge as a tunable-focus cylindrical liquid lens”, Appl. Phys. Lett, 110, 041608, 2017.

H Chen, T. Tang, A. Amirfazli,”Fast Liquid Transfer between Surfaces: Breakup of Stretched Liquid Bridges”, Langmuir, 42, 11470-11476, 2015.

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We work on development of practical instrumentation. For example, in a series of papers below we showed how one can use a smartphone to measure surface tension and contact angle. We are always eager to use the power of modern mobile/cell phones to develop unique scientific and technical instruments.

Chen, J. L. Muros-Cobos, A. Amirfazli, “Contact angle measurement with a smartphone”, Rev. Sci. Instruments, 89, 035117, 2018.

Chen, J. L. Muros-Cobos, J. A. Holgado-Terriza, A. Amirfazli., “Surface Tension Measurement with a Smartphone using a Pendant Drop”, Colloids & Surfaces A, 533, 213-217, 2017.