Soft Matter Electrified I

Presentations

• Electrical discharges in energetic granular flows

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Joshua Méndez Harper

    • Portland State University

  Authors

  • Joshua Méndez Harper

    • Portland State University

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• Contact charging with levitated particles: toward fast and spatially sensitive charge detection using acoustic levitation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Markus Felber

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  Authors

  • Markus Felber

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  • Scott Waitukaitis

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  • Galien Grosjean

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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• Cohesion and brittle fracture in negatively-charged piles of hydrophobic grains

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Anthony Dinsmore

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Anthony Dinsmore

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Brandon Hoover

  • Charles Lewis

  • Jeremy Laprade

    • Brandeis University

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• Ion Transfer in Contact Electrification of Neutral Surfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • John Hoffman

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  Authors

  • John Hoffman

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  • Scott Waitukaitis

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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• Multi-layer Self Limiting Electrospray Deposition using Secondary Voltage Bias

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Madhuri Deb

    • Rutgers University

  Authors

  • Madhuri Deb

    • Rutgers University

  • Rahman Pejman

  • Shubin Xie

  • Jeffrey Zahn

  • Jonathan Singer

    • Rutgers University

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• Using Sapphire Platelets to Increase the Electrical Breakdown Strength of Elastomers

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Nikhil Deliwala

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Nikhil Deliwala

    • Harvard University

  • Sumin Jung

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• From zero to breakdown: Using optical tweezers to simultaneously trap, charge and measure the charge of a microparticle in air

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Publication: Using optical tweezers to simultaneously trap, charge and measure the charge of a microparticle in air
  https://doi.org/10.1103/5xd9-4tjj
  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17591

  Presenters

  • Andrea Stoellner

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  Authors

  • Andrea Stoellner

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  • Isaac Lenton

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  • Artem Volosniev

  • James Millen

  • Renjiro Shibuya

  • Hisao Ishii

  • Dmytro Rak

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  • Zhanybek Alpichshev

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  • Grégory David

  • Ruth Signorell

    • ETH Zurich

  • Caroline Muller

  • Scott Waitukaitis

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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• Bipolar surface charging by evaporating water droplet

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08884

  Presenters

  • NITISH SINGH

    • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  Authors

  • NITISH SINGH

    • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  • Aaron Ratschow

    • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

  • Nabeel Aslam

  • DAN DANIEL

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• A Spray for All Seasons: The Four Types of Electrospray Deposition

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Jennifer Zarny

    • Rutgers University

  Authors

  • Jennifer Zarny

    • Rutgers University

  • Jonathan Singer

    • Rutgers University

  • Jouan Yu

    • Rutgers University

  • Shubin Xie

  • Isha Shah

  • Kyra Wilson

  • Emily Li

  • Assimina Pelegri

  • Xin Yong

    • University at Buffalo

  • Sarah Park

    • Rutgers University

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