Publications by authors named "Somnath Santra"
Liquid-infused slippery surfaces have replaced structural superhydrophobic surfaces in a plethora of emerging applications, hallmarked by their favorable self-healing and liquid-repelling characteristics. Their ease of fabrication on different types of materials and increasing demand in various industrial applications have triggered research interests targeted toward developing an environmental-friendly, flexible, and frugal substrate as the underlying structural and functional backbone. Although many expensive polymers such as polytetrafluoroethylene have so far been used for their fabrication, these are constrained by their compromised flexibility and non-ecofriendliness due to the use of fluorine.
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- Recent research highlights the significance of droplet behavior in confined shear flows, impacting fields like microfluidics and emulsion processing.
- Traditional findings show that confinement typically stabilizes droplets, but this study reveals a counterintuitive nonmonotonic deformation influenced by an external electric field.
- The research suggests that electric fields can change droplet orientation and potentially increase the likelihood of droplet breakup, shifting the breakup mode from midpoint to edge pinching, which could have important applications in technology development.