Research
K. H. Kang	Research	Publications	Life Style
Electrowetting and wetting (Prof. T. B. Jones’ lab, Prof. C. J. Kim’s lab.) l How electrostatic fields change contact angle in electrowetting. (PDF) l Wetting tension due to Coulombic interaction in charge-related wetting phenomena. (PDF) l Geometry dependence of wetting tension on charge-modified surfaces. (PDF) l Electrostatic contribution to line tension in a wedge-shaped contact region. (PDF) l Validity of the Derjaguin approximation in electrostatic effect on the Frumkin—Derjaguin approach. (PDF) l Undergoing project: “Application of electrowetting in microfluidics (2 years)”. [Summary in HWP, (In Korean)] “Electrowetting: Microfluidic Applications and Electromechanical Theory,” Presented at Dept. of Chem. Eng., POSTECH, Sep. 15, 2003. (PDF 1.5M) Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) inside microchannels l Theoretical investigation on the liquid junction potential in a slit-like microchannel. (Accepted for publication to J. of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Manuscript in PDF) “Electrokinetics of a Concentration Fuel Cell in a Microchannel,” Presented at the Second POSTECH-SAIT Joint Workshop on Microfluidics, July 14–15, 2003, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. (PDF 1.6M) l Numerical study on the EHD flow instability in a microchannel (In preparation for the Physical Review E). (Click here for experimental results of Chen & Santiago) l mPIV measurement of EHD instability of electroosmotic flow inside a T-channel in Prof. Sang Joon Lee’s Lab. l Analysis of electroosmotic flow around a wedge (In preparation for the J. Colloid Interface Sci.). PIV measurement of flow inside an evaporating droplet l Visualization of flow inside a small evaporating droplet. (Presented at the 5^th Int’l Conf. on PIV, Busan, Korea, 2003, Selected for publication in the special issue of the Measurement Science & Technology for PIV’03) [Manuscript in PDF, Presentation material in PDF (1.4M)] Lastly Modified in October 17, 2003