Conveners
Water transport I
- Eberhard Lehmann (Paul Scherrer Instiut)
Dr
Helen Hermes
(Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)
18/04/2012, 09:00
The movement of solvents in and through soft and complex matter is not only of fundamental interest but is also important for applications as wide-ranging as drug-delivery, food packaging, oil recovery and water uptake in plants. Solvent flux results in changes in the local composition of a material which can be measured using neutron imaging. The concentration profiles extracted from the...
Dr
Claudia Pantalei
(Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
18/04/2012, 09:30
Imbibition is the phenomenon by which a liquid is able to penetrate and rise-up into a porous media. This process is often found in everyday life (for instance when a cube of sugar is dipped into coffee) and is of great interest to many areas, from biology and industrial applications through to nanofluidics. Imbibition kinetics have been well known on a macroscopic level since the 19th...