Programme

The Faraday Discussion 144 programme follows. A full programme with timings is available to download from this page.

Introductory Lecture

Peter J Rossky*
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Session 1: Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Session Chair: Alenka Luzar, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Dynamical Superhydrophobicity
Mathilde Reyssat, Denis Richard, Christophe Clanet and David Quéré*
ESPCI, France

Superhydrophobic surfaces prepared by hybrid raspberry-like particles
Maria d'Acunzi, Lena Mammen, Maninderjit Singh, Xu Deng, Marcel Roth, Günter K Auernhammer, Hans-Jurgen Butt* and Doris Vollmer
Max Planck Institut for Polymer Research, Germany

Session 2: Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Session Chair: Hugo Christenson, University of Leeds, UK

Microscopic shape and contact angle measurements at a superhydrophobic surface
Helmut Rathgen and Frieder Mugele*
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Transparent superhydrophobic and highly oleophobic coatings
Liangliang Cao and Di Gao*
University of Pittsburgh, USA

The influence of molecular-scale ro ughness on the surface spreading of an aqueous nanodrop
Christopher D Daub*, Jihang Wang, Shobbit Kudesia, Dusan Bratko and Alenka Luzar
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Session 3: Dynamic Transitions

Session Chair: Kenneth Wynne, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Contact angle hysteresis: a different view and a trivial recipe for low-hysteresis hydrophobic surfaces
Joseph W Krumpfer and Thomas J McCarthy*
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Amplification of electro-osmotic flows by wall slippage: direct measurements on OTS-surfaces
Marie-Charlotte Audry, Agnès Piednoir, Pierre Joseph and Elisabeth Charlaix* 
University of Lyon, France

Electrowetting and droplet impalement experiments on superhydrophobic multiscale structures
F Lapierre, P Brunet, Y Coffinier, V Thomy*, R Blossey and R Boukherroub
IEMN, France

Flat and smooth superhydrophobic surfaces: heating induced wetting transitions up to the Leidenfrost temperature
Guangming Liu and Vincent S J Craig*
The Australian National University, Australia

Session 4: Dynamic Transitions

Session Chair: Michael Klein, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Drop dynamics on hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces
B M Mognetti, H Kusumaatmaja and J M Yeomans*
University of Oxford, UK

Dynamic mean field theory of condensation and evaporation processes for fluids in porous materials: application to partial drying and drying
J R Edison and P A Monson*
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Molecualr dynamics simulations of urea-water binary droplets on flat and pillared hydrophobic surfaces
Takahiro Koishi*, Kenji Yasuoka, Xiao C Zeng and Shigenori Fujikwa
University of Fukui, Japan

Session 5: Liquid-Vapour Interfaces and Nanobubbles

Session Chair: Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton University, USA

First- and second-order wetting transitions at liquid-vapour interfaces
K Koga, J O Indekeu and B Widom*
Cornell University, USA

Hierarchical surfaces: an in-situ investigation into nano and microscale wettability
Alex H F Wu*, K L Cho, Irving I Liaw,  Grainne Moran, Nick Roberts, Nigel Kirby and Robert N Lamb
The University of New South Wale, Australia

An experimental study of interactions between droplets and a nonwetting microfluidic capillary
Geoff R Willmott*, Chiara Neto and Shaun C Hendy
Industrial Research Limited, New Zealand

Session 6: Hydrophobic Surfaces

Session Chair: Jim Henderson, University of Leeds, UK

Hydrophobic interactions in model enclosures from small to large length scales: nonadditivity in explicit and implicit solvent models
Lingle Wang, Richard A Friesner and Bruce J Berne*
Columbia University, USA

Water reorientation, hydrogen-bond dynamics and 2D-IR spectroscopy next to an extended hydrophobic surface
Guillaume Stirnemann*, Peter J Rossky, James T Hynes and Damien Laage
Ecole Normale Supérieure, France

Session 7: Heterogeneous Surfaces

Session Chair: Bob Evans, University of Bristol, UK

The Search for the hydrophobic force law
Malte U Hammer, Travers H Anderson, Aviel Chaimovich, M Scott Shell and Jacob Israelachvili*
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

The effect of counterions on surfactant-hydrophobized surfaces
Gilad Silbert, Susan Perkin* and Jacob Klein
University College London, UK

Hydrophobic forces in wetting films of water formed on xanthate-coated gold surfaces
Lei Pan and Roe-Hoan Yoon*
Virginia Tech, USA

Session 8: Heterogeneous Surfaces

Session Chair: John Weeks, University of Maryland, USA

Interfacial thermodynamics of confined water near molecularly rough surfaces
Jeetain Mittal and Gerhard Hummer*
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, USA

Mapping hydrophobicity at the nanoscale: applications to heterogeneous surfaces and proteins
Hari Acharya, Srivathsan Ranganathan, Sumath N Jamadagni and Shekhar Garde*
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Concluding Remarks

Frank H Stillinger*
Princeton University, USA

*Denotes presenting author to whom affiliation applies