Sankara Arunachalam, Ph.D

Experiments on Bio-inspired smart surfaces for bio-fouling prevention, drag reduction and oil water separation applications.

Suppression of Leidenfrost effect on superhydrophobic surfaces
M. Shi, R. Das, S. Arunachalam, H. Mishra
Physics of Fluids (2021), 33, 122104 DOI: 10.1063/5.0064040
Delayed Leidenfrost States on Hydrophobic Surfaces
M. Shi, S. Arunachalam, C. Picioreanu, H. Mishra
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts (2021), id.N01.13

Diffusion-driven directional wetting transitions
S. Arunachalam, Z. Ahmad, H. Mishra
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts (2021), A29. 005

Durable Gas-entrapping Microstructured Surfaces (GEMS)
S. Arunachalam, A. Qamar, M. Shi, M. Sadullah, H. Mishra
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts (2021), N01. 090

Wetting Transitions: Counterintuitive Wetting Transitions in Doubly Reentrant Cavities as a Function of Surface Make‐Up, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Cavity Aspect Ratio
S. Arunachalam, Z. Ahmad, R. Das, H. Mishra
Advanced Materials Interfaces (2020), 22, 2070121 DOI:10.1002/admi.202070121

Biomimetic coating-free surfaces for long-term entrapment of air under wetting liquids
E.M. Domingues, S. Arunachalam, J. Nauruzbayeva, H. Mishra
Nature Communications (2018) , 9, Article number: 3606,
Assessing omniphobicity by immersion
S. Arunachalam, R. Das, J. Nauruzbayeva, E.M. Domingues, H. Mishra
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2019), 534, 156-162. DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2018.08.059
Evaluating the Potential of Superhydrophobic Nanoporous Alumina Membranes for Direct Contact Membrane Distillation
N. Subramanian, A. Qamar, A. Alsaadi, A. Gallo Jr., M. Ghifari, J.-G. Lee, S. Pillai, S. Arunachalam, D. Anjum, F. Sharipov, N.Ghaffour, H. Mishra
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2019), 533, 723-732
Doubly Reentrant Cavities Prevent Catastrophic Wetting Transitions on Intrinsically Wetting Surfaces
E. Domingues, S. Arunachalam, H. Mishra
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2017), 9 (25), pp. 21532-21538