Development of a setup to characterize capillary liquid bridges between liquid infused surfaces (2022)
Journal Article
Goodband, S. J., Kusumaatmaja, H., & Voïtchovsky, K. (2022). Development of a setup to characterize capillary liquid bridges between liquid infused surfaces. AIP Advances, 12(1), Article 015120. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0072548

Capillary liquid bridges are ubiquitous in nature and are present in many industrial processes. In order to model their behavior, it is essential to develop suitable experimental tools that are able to characterize the bridges’ geometry and the assoc... Read More about Development of a setup to characterize capillary liquid bridges between liquid infused surfaces.

Control of Superselectivity by Crowding in Three-Dimensional Hosts (2021)
Journal Article
Christy, A. T., Kusumaatmaja, H., & Miller, M. A. (2021). Control of Superselectivity by Crowding in Three-Dimensional Hosts. Physical Review Letters, 126(2), Article 028002. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.028002

Motivated by the fine compositional control observed in membraneless droplet organelles in cells, we investigate how a sharp binding-unbinding transition can occur between multivalent client molecules and receptors embedded in a porous three-dimensio... Read More about Control of Superselectivity by Crowding in Three-Dimensional Hosts.

Phase transitions on non-uniformly curved surfaces: Coupling between phase and location (2020)
Journal Article
Law, J. O., Dean, J. M., Miller, M. A., & Kusumaatmaja, H. (2020). Phase transitions on non-uniformly curved surfaces: Coupling between phase and location. Soft Matter, 16(34), 8069-8077. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sm00652a

For particles confined to two dimensions, any curvature of the surface affects the structural, kinetic and thermodynamic properties of the system. If the curvature is non-uniform, an even richer range of behaviours can emerge. Using a combination of... Read More about Phase transitions on non-uniformly curved surfaces: Coupling between phase and location.

The Effect of Ageing on the Structure and Properties of Model Liquid Infused Surfaces (2020)
Journal Article
Goodband, S., Armstrong, S., Kusumaatmaja, H., & Voïtchovsky, K. (2020). The Effect of Ageing on the Structure and Properties of Model Liquid Infused Surfaces. Langmuir, 36(13), 3461-3470. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00059

Liquid infused surfaces (LIS) exhibit unique properties that make them ideal candidates for a wide range of applications, from anti-fouling and anti-icing coatings to self-healing surfaces and controlled wetting. However, when exposed to realistic en... Read More about The Effect of Ageing on the Structure and Properties of Model Liquid Infused Surfaces.

Nucleation on a sphere: the roles of curvature, confinement and ensemble (2018)
Journal Article
Law, J. O., Wong, A. G., Kusumaatmaja, H., & Miller, M. A. (2018). Nucleation on a sphere: the roles of curvature, confinement and ensemble. Molecular Physics, 116(21-22), 3008-3019. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2018.1483041

By combining Monte Carlo simulations and analytical models, we demonstrate and explain how the gas-to-liquid phase transition of colloidal systems confined to a spherical surface depends on the curvature and size of the surface, and on the choice of... Read More about Nucleation on a sphere: the roles of curvature, confinement and ensemble.