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2026

March

• Jana, S., Kolinski, J., Lohse, D., & Sanjay, V. Impacting spheres: from liquid drops to elastic beads. Soft Matter, 22, 2226-2236 (2026), selected as the cover article.

February

• Dixit, A. K., Zhao, C., Zaleski, S., Lohse, D., & Sanjay, V. Holes in Sheets: Double-Threshold Rupture of Draining Liquid Films. Phys. Rev. Lett., 136, 084001 (2026).

• Ayush Dixit presents “Simulating Respiratory Droplet Formation: The Role of Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics,” showing via large-scale simulations that viscoelastic respiratory-fluid effects are essential for accurate droplet-size predictions in airborne transmission models. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFP5K9i8ah8

January

• Díaz, D., Bhargava, A. S., Walz, F., Sharifi, A., Summaly, S., Berger, R., Kappl, M., Butt, H.-J., Lohse, D., Willers, T., Sanjay, V., & Vollmer, D. Stood-up Drop to Determine Receding Contact Angles. Soft Matter, 22, 657-667 (2026).

2025

CoMPhy Lab at Durham University

Since July 1st, 2025, the CoMPhy Lab has been based at Durham University, UK, in the Condensed Matter Physics section of the Department of Physics.

December

• Demirkır, Ç., Yang, R., Bashkatov, A., Sanjay, V., Lohse, D., & Krug, D. To jump or not to jump: Adhesion and viscous dissipation dictate the detachment of coalescing wall-attached bubbles. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 10, 123602 (2025).

November

• Jnandeep Talukdar won the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 2025 for his master’s thesis on fundamental research in droplet formation. Thesis: Singularities with Surfactants

September

• Saini, M., Sanjay, V., Saade, Y., Lohse, D., & Popinet, S. Implementation of integral surface tension formulations in a volume of fluid framework and their applications to Marangoni flows. J. Comput. Phys., 542, 114348 (2025).