Suraj Borkar

Postdoc in Fuller group @Stanford. PhD @UofT. Interested in soft matter, wetting and thin films, surface nanobubbles and nanodroplets.

[Suraj Borkar @borkar_suraj]

Read my latest #research on #fluids #softmatter, published with @SpringerNature in @NatureComms https://t.co/QwsKB9TJ6q

[The Zia Lab @TheZiaLab]

Excited to share our accepted Annual Reviews article, "The matter/life nexus in biological cells". We cast a wide net into cellular biology, biophysics, and genetic approaches to defining life, toward understanding of the materiality of cellular life: https://t.co/6TGeIW0qRw.

[Aysan Razzaghi @AysanRazzaghi]

Head-on or glancing collision?
We use the hydrodynamic force in a six-port microfluidic channel to precisely steer two drops towards head-on and glancing collisions in a linear extensional flow using a single control parameter. in @PhysRevFluids
https://t.co/iATvfXWYFu

[Jonathan Pham @JonTPham]

Congrats to Rahat for his first paper in @softmatter! Here we validated capillary forces on a microparticle at a liquid-liquid interface using simultaneous confocal and colloidal probe microscopy.

https://t.co/iIIYNUZj5G

[Aysan Razzaghi @AysanRazzaghi]

Check out our little paper on the controlled deformation of a Hele-Shaw drop in a quadratic extensional flow @AIP_Publishing . The deformed drop is no longer an ellipse as seen in linear extensional flows but is rather a triangle with rounded corners.
👇
https://t.co/UAGpc7bUED

[Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett]

Evaporation of soap films leads to significant cooling which leads to a change in various physical properties that affect bubble lifetime
Letter: https://t.co/Aw50KKcGtp
Synopsis: https://t.co/IwFrmgZaLE

[Alban Sauret @AlbanSauret]

Pushing a liquid out of a tube leaves behind a thin film on the capillary walls. Could this be used for coating applications with suspensions? Deok-Hoon Jeong (and others) address this question in our last paper published @softmatter https://t.co/37lJ9Sd68v @UCSBengineering

[Aditya_S_Khair @AdityaSKhair1]

Fresh preprint on gravitational settling of active drops 💧⬇️ out today: great collaboration with @LaurenZarzar , @calebmeredth, @dynscientist, #AlexCastonguay, and #CieraWentworth. Nice job, team!

https://t.co/KW9qbTmnPb

[Reika Katsumata @Katsumata_R_]

🆕Paper🎊

Ever wonder about the 💧wettability/surface energy🩸of ultrathin polymer films and the influences of underlayers like "wetting transparency" in graphene?

Check out our paper in @MacroJrnls_ACS led by Evon Petek⬇️
https://t.co/786JtNlvdC

[Hamza Khattak @HamzaKhatt]

Our paper “Direct force measurement of microscopic droplets pulled along soft surfaces” is out in @NatureComms with @KDalnokiVeress, Stefan Karpitschka and Jacco Snoeijer. @McMasterScience @ESPCI_Paris @mpids @poftwente https://t.co/H6q402ne8G Thread ¼

[Paulo E. Arratia @ArratiaPaulo]

Dry mouth anyone? It may be due to an increase in saliva extensional viscosity, particularly in cancer patients. Thanks @RPS_lab and Penn Medicine - we learned a lot. See it in "Rheology of saliva in health and disease" https://t.co/nXNvViM4m3

[Arnaud Antkowiak @an7k0]

Though liquid, droplets impacting (even tough) solids can erode them. This is because the shear stresses developing near the ring of contact are incredibly high. Now these stresses have been observed in real time by Leonardo Gordillo and coll.: https://t.co/SRu6FLsp04
Brilliant!

[Alberto Giacomello @AlbGiacomello]

Our new work on #slip at liquid-liquid #interfaces in the presence of gases is published in @JFluidMech (with @AntTinti). Funding by @mur_gov_, @ERC_Research, and @PRACE_RI https://t.co/Z4vZ8PCEAa

[Jose A. Morin @joseMLan]

Happy to share our work on surface condensation @NaturePhysics. @mpicbg #mpipks @PoLDresden @csbdresden
We now show a non-trivial consequence of condensation for DNA specificity!! Sina Wittmann @Sandeep_IMSc, @HymanLab, Frank Julicher @StephanGrill
https://t.co/qVnxpfsqw0
🧵👇

[Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett]

Volume 128, Issue 4
https://t.co/k6XnUyti5x
Cover: Morphologies of ice melting inside liquid water at different temperatures, from colder (left) to intermediate (center) to warmer (right)
https://t.co/HlVwdfXSjA

[Ankur Gupta @ankurg90]

Request to RT again. @AdityaSKhair1 @HenryCWChu and I are organizing a minisymosium on "Electrokinetics for Nano and Microfluidics"; details below. Abstract submission deadline is now Jan-31, 2022. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions. https://t.co/Yr5G2ycLuC

[Carla Fernandez-Rico @carlacolloids]

Check out my latest article 'Putting the Squeeze on Phase Separation' written with my new team at @ETH_Materials!🤩🤩 #SoftAndLivingMaterialsGroup @JACS_Au https://t.co/pTieNkAcDt

[The Vogel Lab @VogelLab]

Little budget, no microfluidic experience, but want to make water-in-oil-in-water droplets? No problem! With @SMaL_EPFL, @_Wang_JW_ developed a method to make double emulsions of a single core and a micrometre-thick shell, using centrifuge tubes and a vortex mixer. In Adv. Mater.

[Alban Sauret @AlbanSauret]

Physics - Complex Droplets and Interacting Bubbles Receive Video Prize https://t.co/ozCAjZnYEL