The role of substrate mechanics in osmotic biofilm spreading

Anthony Pietz, Karin John and Uwe Thiele

Soft Matter, 2025, 21, 2935
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01463D

Condensation on soft substrates: a mesoscopic perspective

Christopher Henkel, Ambre Bouillant, Jacco H. Snoeijer and Uwe Thiele

Mater. Adv., 2026, 7, 1825
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Stick-slip dynamics in the forced wetting of polymer brushes

Daniel Greve, Simon Hartmann and Uwe Thiele

Soft Matter, 2023, 19, 4041
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Nanodroplets wetting an elastic half-space

Nikolai Kubochkin and Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman

Soft Matter, 2023, 19, 5050
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Wetting on silicone surfaces

Lukas Hauer, Abhinav Naga, Rodrique G. M. Badr, Jonathan T. Pham, William S. Y. Wong and Doris Vollmer

Soft Matter, 2024, 20, 5273
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Factors influencing wettability and surface/interface mechanics of plant surfaces: a review

Jinxin Tie, Mengyuan Gao, Yulin Huang, Kecheng Li and Hui Wang

Front. Mater., 2023, 10
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The motion of a thin drop on an elastic sheet

Zhixuan Li and Weiqing Ren

J. Fluid Mech., 2025, 1022
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Controllable Wetting Transitions on Photoswitchable Physical Gels

Niloofar Nekoonam, Grace Vera, Andreas Goralczyk, Fadoua Mayoussi, Pang Zhu, David Böcherer, Ahmad Shakeel and Dorothea Helmer

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15, 27234
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Stick-slip contact line motion on Kelvin-Voigt model substrates

Dominic Mokbel, Sebastian Aland and Stefan Karpitschka

EPL, 2022, 139, 33002
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Dynamics of the interaction of a pair of thin evaporating droplets on compliant substrates

A. Malachtari and G. Karapetsas

J. Fluid Mech., 2024, 978
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Dynamics of particle aggregation in dewetting films of complex liquids

J. Zhang, D.N. Sibley, D. Tseluiko and A.J. Archer

J. Fluid Mech., 2024, 990
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Spreading of a thin droplet on a soft substrate

Saiful Tamim and Joshua B. Bostwick

J. Fluid Mech., 2023, 971
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2023.673

Gradient dynamics approach to reactive thin-film hydrodynamics

Florian Voss and Uwe Thiele

J Eng Math, 2024, 149
DOI: 10.1007/s10665-024-10402-x

Sessile drop evaporation in a gap – crossover between diffusion-limited and phase transition-limited regime

Simon Hartmann, Christian Diddens, Maziyar Jalaal and Uwe Thiele

J. Fluid Mech., 2023, 960
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2023.176

Exploring the gap between theory and experiment at the three-phase contact line of polystyrene droplets on soft PDMS

Khalil Remini, Leonie Schmeller, Dirk Peschka, Barbara Wagner and Ralf Seemann

Sci Rep, 2025, 15
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-30195-y

Confinement-induced drift in Marangoni-driven transport of surfactant: a Lagrangian perspective

Richard Mcnair, Oliver E. Jensen and Julien R. Landel

J. Fluid Mech., 2024, 986
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Pattern formation on hydrophobic PDMS substrates by evaporating droplets: combined effect of substrate stiffness, relative humidity and particle size

Moutushi D Choudhury, Tapati Dutta and Ankur Chattopadhyay

Phys. Scr., 2024, 99, 095969
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Moving wetting ridges on ultrasoft gels

Hansol Jeon, Youchuang Chao and Stefan Karpitschka

Phys. Rev. E, 2023, 108
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Drops on Polymer Brushes: Advances in Thin-Film Modeling of Adaptive Substrates

Simon Hartmann, Jan Diekmann, Daniel Greve and Uwe Thiele

Langmuir, 2024, 40, 4001
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03313

Instability and rupture of ultrathin freestanding viscoelastic solid films

Satya Sekhar, Ashutosh Sharma and V. Shankar

Phys. Rev. E, 2022, 106
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Soft Wetting Ridge Rotation in Sessile Droplets and Capillary Bridges

Bo Xue Zheng and Tak Shing Chan

Langmuir, 2025, 41, 4146
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Liquid film rupture beyond the thin-film equation: A multi-component lattice Boltzmann study

F. Pelusi, M. Sega and J. Harting

Physics of Fluids, 2022, 34
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Mesoscopic hydrodynamic model for spreading, sliding, and coarsening compound drops

Jan Diekmann and Uwe Thiele

Phys. Rev. Fluids, 2025, 10
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Numerical simulation of spinodal dewetting using single-component multiphase pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method at high density ratio

Ramya Durga Manga and Jayati Sarkar

Physics of Fluids, 2024, 36
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Spreading and engulfment of a viscoelastic film onto a Newtonian droplet

Chunheng Zhao, Taehun Lee and Andreas Carlson

Phys. Rev. Fluids, 2024, 9
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Drops of volatile binary mixtures on brush-covered substrates

Jan Diekmann and Uwe Thiele

Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top., 2024, 233, 1615
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Surfactant-Mediated Modulation of Thin Droplets Spreading on a Soft Substrate

Anubhav Jain, Shreyank Goel and Dipin S. Pillai

Langmuir, 2026, 42, 1973
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Soft wetting with (a)symmetric Shuttleworth effect

C. Henkel, M. H. Essink, T. Hoang, G. J. van Zwieten, E. H. van Brummelen, U. Thiele and J. H. Snoeijer

Proc. R. Soc. A., 2022, 478
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