Research

1. Liquids confined to nanometer-sized pores

• Aqueous solutions
• Salt solutions
• Organic solvents
• Electric field measurements

2. Wetting and adsorption

• Wetting-dewetting of liquid films
• Polymers on surfaces
• Surfactants rearrangement
• Charged patches interactions

3. Nanotribology

• Polymer brushes
• Biolubrication
• Boundary lubrication

4. Research methods

• Surface force balance (SFB)
• Atomic force microscope (AFM)
• X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS)
• Dynamic light scattering (DLS)

5. Older research topics

• Composition depth profiling using NRA