2022

Preparation for and performance of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm experiment on board the International Space Station
Pamela Flores, Rylee Schauer, Samantha A. McBride, Jiaqi Luo, Carla Hoehn, Shankini Doraisingam, Dean Widhalm, Jasmin Chadha, Leah Selman, Daniel Wyn Mueller, Shannon Floyd, Mark Rupert, Sridahr Gorti, Shawn Reagan, Kripa K. Varanasi , Christina Koch, Jessica U. Meir, Frank Muecklich, Ralf Moeller, Louis Stodieck, Stefanie Countryman, and Luis Zea. ScienceDirect  

Dynamics of an impacting emulsion droplet
Maher Damak, Jolet De Ruiter, Sreedath Panat, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Science Advances  

Electrostatic dust removal using adsorbed moisture–assisted charge induction for sustainable operation of solar panels
Sreedath Panat and Kripa K. Varanasi. Science Advances Featured in MIT News.

Impact of Bubbles on Electrochemically Active Surface Area of Microtextured Gas-Evolving Electrodes
Jack R. Lake, Álvaro Moreno Soto, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Langmuir (Cover Article)  

Transient Effects Caused by Gas Depletion during Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction
Álvaro Moreno Soto, Jack R. Lake, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Langmuir

2021

Phase Change Dispersion Made by Condensation–EmulsificationLudger J. Fischer, Somayajulu Dhulipala, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Omega

Self-Propulsion of Boiling Droplets on Thin Heated Oil FilmsVictor Julio Leon and Kripa K. Varanasi. Physical Review Letters Editors’ suggestion Featured in MIT News, Physics, and Scientific American

Levitation of fizzy dropsDivya Panchanathan, Philippe Bourrianne, Philippe Nicollier, Abhijatmedhi Chottratanapituk, Kripa K. Varanasi and Gareth H. McKinley. Science Advances  

Crystal critters: Self-ejection of crystals from heated, superhydrophobic surfacesSamantha A. McBride, Henri-Louis Girard, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Science Advances (Cover Article)

Catalyst-proximal plastrons enhance activity and selectivity of carbon dioxide electroreductionSami Khan, Jonathan Hwang, Yang-Shao Horn, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Cell Reports Physical Science

2020

Differences between Colloidal and Crystalline Evaporative Deposits
Samantha A. McBride, Racheal Skye, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Langmuir (Cover Article)

Enhancing the Injectability of High Concentration Drug Formulations Using Core Annular Flows
Vishnu Jayaprakash, Maxime Costalonga, Somayajulu Dhulipala, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Advanced Healthcare Materials (Cover Article) Featured in MIT News, Fierce Pharma    

Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces for Mitigating Asphaltene Deposition
Henri-Louis Girard, Philippe Bourrianne, Mohsen Yeganeh, Robert E. Cohen, Gareth H. McKinley, and Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces    

Asphaltene Adsorption on Functionalized Solids
Henri-Louis Girard, Philippe Bourrianne, Dayong Chen, Aditya Jaishankar, Jessica L. Vreeland, Robert E. Cohen, Kripa K. Varanasi, Gareth H. McKinley. Langmuir    

Capturing Bubbles and Preventing Foam Using Aerophilic Surfaces
Leonid Rapoport, Theo Emmerich, Kripa K. Varanasi. Advanced Materials Interfaces (Cover Article)    

Application of Liquid-Impregnated Surfaces on Gastrointestinal Devices to Reduce Device-Associated Complications
Zheng Zhang, Raymond Seekell, Sarah Jaffe, David J. Smith, Kripa Varanasi and Lyndon Hernandez. American Journal of Gastroenterology

Microstructured Ceramic-Coated Carbon Nanotube Surfaces for High Heat Flux Pool Boiling
Hangbo Zhao, Susmita Dash, Navdeep Singh Dhillon, Sanha Kim, Bethany Lettiere, Kripa K. Varanasi and A. John Hart. ACS Applied Nano Materials 

2019

Reduced Adhesion of Sparkling Water Droplets
Divya Panchanathan, Philippe Bourrianne, Kripa K. Varanasi and Gareth H. McKinley. Physical Review Fluids. This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2018 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original video is available online at The Gallery of Fluid Motion.

Evaporative Crystallization of Spirals
Samantha A. McBride, Susmita Dash, Sami Khan and Kripa K. Varanasi. Langmuir (Cover Article)

Low-Voltage Surface Electrocoalescence Enabled by High-K Dielectrics and Surfactant Bilayers for Oil–Water Separation
Ingrid F. Guha, Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Applied Material Interfaces

Waterbowls: Reducing Impacting Droplet Interactions by Momentum Redirection
Henri-Louis Girard, Dan Soto, Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Nano. Featured in The Economist, Phys.org, Gizmodo, MRS Meeting Scene

Grafted Nanofilms Promote Dropwise Condensation of Low-Surface-Tension Fluids for High-Performance Heat Exchangers
Karim Khalil, Dan Soto, Taylor Farnham, Adam Paxson, Asli Ugur Katmis, Karen Gleason, Kripa K.Varanasi. Joule

Study of the relationship between the crystal structure and micro-nano morphology of anodized stainless steels
Yuehua Cui, Adam T. Paxson, Xianghua Zhang, Qiang Tu, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Electrochemistry Communications

Synthetic Butterfly Scale Surfaces with Compliance-Tailored Anisotropic Drop Adhesion
Hangbo Zhao, Sei Jin Park, Brian R. Solomon, Sanha Kim, Dan Soto, Adam T. Paxson, Kripa K. Varanasi, and A. John Hart. Advanced Materials

Mobility of Yield Stress Fluids on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces
Leonid Rapoport, Brian R. Solomon, and Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Applied Materials Interfaces

2018

Expansion and retraction dynamics in drop-on-drop impacts on nonwetting surfaces
Maher Damak and Kripa Varanasi, Physical Review Fluids

Droplet fragmentation using a mesh
Dan Soto, Henri-Louis Girard, Antoine Le Helloco, Thomas Binder, David Quéré, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Physical Review Fluids Featured in Phys.org

Enhancing the Performance of Viscous Electrode-Based Flow Batteries Using Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces
Brian R. Solomon, Xinwei Chen, Leonid Rapoport, Ahmed Helal, Gareth H. McKinley, Yet-Ming Chiang, and Kripa K. Varanasi, ACS Applied Energy Materials

Photothermal trap utilizing solar illumination for ice mitigation
Susmita Dash, Jolet de Ruiter, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Science Advances

Evaporative Crystallization in Drops on Superhydrophobic and Liquid Impregnated Surfaces
Samantha McBride, Susmita Dash, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Langmuir (Cover Article)

Electrostatically driven fog collection using space charge injection
Maher Damak and Kripa K. Varanasi, Science Advances

Design of a Spaceflight Biofilm Experiment
Luis Zea, Zeena Nisar, Phil Rubin, Marta Cortesão, Jiaqi Luo, Samantha A. McBride, Ralf Moeller, David Klaus, Daniel Müller, Kripa K. Varanasi, Frank Muecklich, and Louis Stodieck. Acta Astronautica

Short‐Fluorinated iCVD Coatings for Nonwetting Fabrics
Dan Soto, Asli Ugur, Taylor A. Farnham, Karen K. Gleason, and Kripa K. Varanasi,  Advanced Functional Materials

Multilevel Robustness 
Henri-Louis Girard, Sami Khan and Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Materials

Separating Nanoscale Emulsions: Progress and Challenges To Date
Ingrid Guha, Kripa K Varanasi, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science

2017

Decreasing Hydroxylation Affinity of La(1-x)SrxMnO3 Perovskites to Promote Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis
Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Xiao Renshaw Wang, Reshma R. Rao, Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Changjian Li, Ariando, T. Venkatesan, Qiang Liu, Ethan J. Crumlin, Kripa K Varanasi, and Yang Shao-Horn, Chemistry of Materials

Creating Nanoscale Emulsions Using Condensation
Ingrid F. Guha, Sushant Anand, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Communications

Crystallization-Induced Fouling during Boiling: Formation Mechanisms to Mitigation Approaches
Susmita Dash, Leonid Rapoport, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Langmuir

Self-Peeling of Impacting Droplets
Jolet de Ruiter, Dan Soto, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Nature Physics Featured in MIT News.

Kinetics of Photoinduced Wettability Switching on Nanoporous Titania Surfaces under Oil
Divya Panchanathan, Gibum Kwon, Talal F. Qahtan, Mohammad A. Gondal, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Gareth H. McKinley, Advanced Materials Interfaces

Visible Light Guided Manipulation of Liquid Wettability on Photoresponsive Surfaces
Gibum Kwon, Divya Panchanathan, Seyed Reza Mahmoudi, Mohammed A. Gondal , Gareth H. McKinley, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Communication

Designing Ultra-Low Hydrate Adhesion Surfaces by Interfacial Spreading of Water-Immiscible Barrier Films
Arindam Das, Taylor A. Farnham, Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, and Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (Cover Article)

2016

Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces, Chapter from the Book “Non-wettable Surfaces : Theory, Preparation and Applications”
Brian R. Solomon, Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Taylor A. Farnham, Karim S. Khalil, Sushant Anand and Kripa K. Varanasi, From the book Non-wettable Surfaces : Theory, Preparation and Applications

Thermocapillary Motion on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces
Nada Bjelobrk, Henri-Louis Girard, Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Hyuk-Min Kwon, David Quéré, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Physical Review Fluids. Featured in The Economist

Enhancing droplet deposition through in-situ precipitation
Maher Damak, Seyed Reza Mahmoudi, Md Nasim Hyder & Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Communications

Low Ice Adhesion on Nano-Textured Superhydrophobic Surfaces under Supersaturated Conditions
Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Vitaliy Kondrashov, Jürgen Rühe, Kripa K. Varanasi, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Characterization of Environmental Dust in the Dammam Area and Mud After-Effects on Bisphenol-A Polycarbonate Sheets
Bekir Sami. Yilbas, Haider Ali, Naseer Al-Aqeeli, Mazen M. Khaled, Syed Said, Numan Abu-Dheir, Necar Merah, Kamal Youcef-Toumi & Kripa K. Varanasi, Scientific Reports

Solvent-induced crystallization of a polycarbonate surface and texture copying by polydimethylsiloxane for improved surface hydrophobicity
B. S. Yilbas, H. Ali, N. Al-Aqeeli, M. Khaled, N. Abu-Dheir, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Journal of Applied Polymer Science

2015

Surface and wetting characteristics of textured bisphenol-A based polycarbonate surfaces: Acetone-induced crystallization texturing methods
Ahmed Owais, Mazen M. Khaled, Bekir S. Yilbas, Numan Abu-Dheir, Kripa K. Varanasi, Kamal Y. Toumi, Journal of Applied Polymer Science

Influence of dust and mud on the optical, chemical, and mechanical properties of a pv protective glass
Bekir Sami. Yilbas, Haider Ali, Mazen M. Khaled, Nasser Al-Aqeeli, Numan Abu-Dheir, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Scientific Reports

Critical heat flux maxima during boiling crisis on textured surfaces
Navdeep S. Dhillon, Jacopo Buongiorno, Kripa K. Varanasi, Nature Communications

Sustaining dry surfaces under water
Paul R. Jones, Xiuqing Hao, Eduardo R. Cruz-Chu, Konrad Rykaczewski, Krishanu Nandy,Thomas M. Schutzius, Kripa K. Varanasi, Constantine M. Megaridis, Jens H. Walther, Petros Koumoutsakos, Horacio D. Espinosa, Neelesh A. Patankar, Scientific Reports

Reactivity of Perovskites with Water: Role of Hydroxylation in Wetting and Implications for Oxygen Electrocatalysis
Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Gisele Azimi, Livia Giordano, Yueh-Lin Lee, Ethan J. Crumlin, Michael D. Biegalski, Hendrik Bluhm, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Yang Shao-Horn, Langmuir

Low-Dimensional Conduction Mechanisms in Highly Conductive and Transparent Conjugated Polymers
Asli Ugur, Ferhat Katmis, Mingda Li, Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Karen K. Gleason. Advanced Materials (Cover Article)

Characteristics of laser textured silicon surface and effect of mud adhesion on hydrophobicity
B.S. Yilbas, H. Ali, M. Khaled, N. Al-Aqeeli, N. Abu-Dheir, K.K. Varanasi, Applied Surface Science

Inverted Leidenfrost-like Effect during Condensation
Ramchandra Narhe, Sushant Anand, Konrad Rykaczewski, Marie-Gabrielle Medici, Wenceslao González-Viñas, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Daniel Beysens, Langmuir

Role of surface oxygen-to-metal ratio on the wettability of rare-earth oxides oxygen-to-metal ratio
Sami Khan, Gisele Azimi, Bilge Yildiz and Kripa K. Varanasi. Applied Physics Letters

2014

How Droplets Nucleate and Grow on Liquids and Liquid Impregnated Surfaces
Sushant Anand, Konrad Rykaczewski, Srinivas B. Subramanyam, Daniel Beysens, and Kripa K. Varanasi, Soft Matter

Wetting and other physical characteristics of polycarbonate surface textured using laser ablation
B.S. Yilbas, M. Khaled, N. Abu-Dheir, N. Al-Aqeeli, S.A.M. Said, A.O.M. Ahmed, K.K. Varanasi, and Y.K. Toumi, Applied Surface Science

Drag Reduction using Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces in Viscous Laminar Flow
Brian R. Solomon, Karim S. Khalil, and Kripa K. Varanasi Langmuir

Active surfaces: Ferrofluid-impregnated surfaces for active manipulation of droplets
Karim S. Khalil, Seyed Reza Mahmoudi, Numan Abu-dheir, and Kripa K. Varanasi Applied Physics Letter

Study of Factors Governing Oil–Water Separation Process Using TiO2 Films Prepared by Spray Deposition of Nanoparticle Dispersions
Mohammed A. Gondal, Muhammad S. Sadullah, Mohamed A. Dastageer, Gareth H. McKinley, Divya Panchanathan, and Kripa K. Varanasi ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Separating Oil-Water Nanoemulsions using Flux-Enhanced Hierarchical Membranes
Brian R. Solomon, Md. Nasim Hyder & Kripa K. Varanasi. Scientific Reports

Scale-resistant surfaces: fundamental studies of the effect of surface energy on reducing scale formation
Gisele Azimi, Yuehua Cui, Alina Sabanska, and Kripa K. Varanasi Applied Surface Science

Different Shades of Oxide: From Nanoscale Wetting Mechanisms to Contact Printing of Gallium-Based Liquid Metals
Kyle Doudrick, Shanliangzi Liu, Eva M. Mutunga, Kate L. Klein, Viraj Damle, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Konrad Rykaczewski Langmuir

Dropwise Condensation of Low Surface Tension Fluids on Omniphobic Surfaces
Konrad Rykaczewski, Adam T. Paxson, Matthew Staymates, Marlon L. Walker, Xiaoda Sun, Sushant Anand, Siddarth Srinivasan, Gareth H. McKinley, Jeff Chinn, John Henry J. Scott, and Kripa K. Varanasi Scientific Reports

Designing Lubricant-Impregnated Textured Surfaces to Resist Scale Formation
Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Gisele Azimi, and Kripa K. Varanasi Advanced Materials Interfaces

2013

Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Photocatalysis Under Visible Light with Au/Cu–TiO2 Nanoparticles: Removal Cr (VI) from Water as a Case of Study
M.A. Gondal, M.A. Dastageer, S.G. Rashid, S.M. Zubair, M.A. Ali, D.H. Anjum, J.H. Lienhard, G.H. Mckinley, K.K. Varanasi Science of Advanced Materials

Sol–Gel Synthesis of Au/Cu-TiO2 Nanocomposite and Their Morphological and Optical Properties
M.A. Gondal, S.G. Rashid, M.A. Dastageer, S.M. Zubair, M.A. Ali, J.H. Lienhard, G.H. McKinley, and K.K. Varanasi IEEE Photonics Journal

Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop
James C. Bird, Rajeev Dhiman, Hyuk-Min KwoN, and Kripa K. Varanasi Nature (Cover Article). Featured in Innovation in Textiles

Ice adhesion on lubricant-impregnated textured surfaces
Srinivas Bengaluru Subramanyam, Konrad Rykaczewski, and Kripa K Varanasi, Langmuir

Fog harvesting potential of Lubricant-Impregnated Electrospun Nanomats
Boor Lalia, Sushant Anand, K. K. Varanasi and Raed Hashaikeh, Langmuir

Stable Dropwise Condensation for Enhancing Heat Transfer via the Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD) of Grafted Polymer Films
Adam Paxson, Jose Yagüe, Karen Gleason, and Kripa Varanasi, Advanced Materials (Cover Article)

Electrostatic precursor films
Seyed Reza Mahmoudi, Kazimierz Adamiak, G. S. Peter Castle and Kripa K. Varanasi, Soft Matter

Increasing Leidenfrost point using micro-nano hierarchical surface structures
Hyuk-Min Kwon, Jacy Bird and Kripa K. Varanasi, APL

Mechanism of Frost Formation on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces
K. Rykaczewski, S. Anand, S. B. Subramanyam, and K. K. Varanasi, Langmuir

Visualization of contact line motion on hydrophobic textures
K. M. Smyth, A. T. Paxson, H-M Kwon, K. K. Varanasi, Surface Innovations

Self-similarity of contact line depinning from textured surfaces
A. T. Paxson & K. K. Varanasi, Nature Communications

Hydrophobicity of rare-earth oxide ceramics
Gisele Azimi, Rajeev Dhiman, Hyuk-Min Kwon, Adam T. Paxson & Kripa K. Varanasi. Nature Materials

2012

Multimode Multidrop Serial Coalescence Effects during Condensation on Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Konrad Rykaczewski, Adam T Paxson, Sushant Anand, Xuemei Chen, Zuankai Wang, and Kripa K Varanasi. Langmuir

Droplet Mobility on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces
JD Smith, R Dhiman, S Anand, E Reza-Garduno, RE Cohen, GH McKinley, KK Varanasi. Soft Matter (Cover Article)

Enhanced Condensation on Lubricant-Impregnated Nanotextured Surfaces
Sushant Anand, Adam Paxson, Rajeev Dhiman, Jonathan D. Smith and Kripa K. Varanasi. ACS Nano

Direct Imaging of Complex Nano- to Microscale Interfaces Involving Solid, Liquid, and Gas Phases
Konrad Rykaczewski, T. Landin, M. L. Walker, J. Henry, J. Scott and Kripa Varanasi. ACS Nano

Hydrate-Phobic Surfaces: Fundamental Studies in Clathrate Hydrate Adhesion Reduction
Dave Smith, Adam J. Meuler, Harrison L. Bralower, Rama Venkatesan, Sivakumar Subramanian, Robert E. Cohen, Gareth H. McKinley, and Kripa K. Varanasi. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Hierarchical Polymeric Textures via Solvent-Induced Phase Transformation: a Single-Step Production of Large-Area Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Y. H. Cui, A. T. Paxson, K. M. Smyth, and K. K. Varanasi. ACS Colloids & Surfaces A: Physiochemical and Engineering Aspects

2011

Size-Dependent Thermal Oxidation of Copper: Single-Step Synthesis of Hierarchical Nanostructures
C. J. Love, J. D. Smith, Y. H. Cui, and K. K. Varanasi. Nanoscale

Rapid Deceleration-Driven Wetting Transition during Pendant Drop Deposition on Superhydrophobic Surfaces
H. Kwon, A. T. Paxson, K. K. Varanasi, and N. A. Patankar. Physical Review Letters

2010

Frost Formation and Ice Adhesion on Superhydrophobic Surfaces
K. K. Varanasi, T. Deng, J. D. Smith, M. Hsu, and N. Bhate, Applied Physics Letters

Relationships between Water Wettability and Ice Adhesion
A. J. Meuler, J. D. Smith, K. K. Varanasi, J. Mabry, G. H. McKinley, and R. E. Cohen, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

2009

Spatial Control in the Heterogeneous Nucleation of Water
K. K. Varanasi, M. Hsu, N. Bhate, W. Yang, and T. Deng, Applied Physics Letters

Nonwetting of Impinging Droplets on Textured Surfaces
T. Deng, K.K. Varanasi, M. Hsu, N. Bhate, C. Keimel, J. Stein, and M. Blohm, Applied Physics Letters