Symposium J-Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics

Soft matter, having structural features in the mesoscopic range, and including materials such as liquid crystals, colloids, foams, polymers, surfactants, glues, rubbers, gels, neurons, tissues, sand, snow, etc., is widely used in large number of applications ranging from energy systems to biomedical system. Two key parameters regarding soft matter, which are often poorly understood, are its wetting characteristics and electric double layer electrostatics (soft electrokinetics) at its interface. However, fundamental understanding of wetting and soft electrokinetics is extremely important for opening up new application areas in materials research and creating paradigm shift in our basic understanding of soft matter.

The proposed symposium will showcase the cutting edge developments in the area of theoretical advancements coupled with experimental techniques that are providing foundational basis to the areas of wetting and soft electrokinetics. Abstracts will be arranged such that equal emphasis is laid upon understanding the fundamental processes involving soft matter, as well as deciphering key applications of soft matter where both wetting and electrokinetics are important. The symposium will attract experts from around the world, having specialties in areas ranging from material science, fluid dynamics, and solid mechanics to surface chemistry and interfacial science.

The interdisciplinary nature of this symposium will make the material scientist community be aware of the wetting and electrostatics, which will further help in producing next generation tunable property soft materials.

• Wetting properties of soft matter: Contact angle; Superhydrophobicity; Role of elastic modulus on Young’s contact angle
• Material properties of soft matter: Components of elastic modulus; stress-strain relationship; engineered composite materials
• Applications related to soft matter:microfluidics/nanofluidics; BioMEMS;Tissue engineering;Brain Research
• Soft electrokinetics: Role of deformable solid on Electrical Double Layer;Streaming potential and electroviscous effects
• Theory, modeling andsimulation of soft matter

• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _0 (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _1 (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _2 (Water Planet, USA)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _3 (Stony Brook University, USA)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _4 (University of Maryland, USA)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _5 (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _6 (University of Toronto, Canada)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _7 (Kookmin University, Republic of Korea)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _8 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _9 (ESPCI, France)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _10 (University of Central Florida, USA)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _11 (University of Alberta, Canada)
• J_Wetting and Soft Electrokinetics _12 (Monash University, Australia)