prof.dr. F.G. Mugele (Frieder)

Prof. Mugele studied physics at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and obtained his PhD there in 1997 with a work in surface science studying diffusion on metal surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum. During a postdoctoral research stay (1998/99) as a Humboldt Fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA (USA) he became interested in liquid-solid interfaces and confined liquids. As a research assistant at the University of Ulm (Germany; 1999-2004; habilitation 2003), he extended his work to wetting of functionalized surfaces, including in particular electrowetting. Since 2004, he has been full Professor of Physics of Complex Fluids at the University of Twente (The Netherlands). He is heading a group of approx. 25 researchers studying fundamental and applied aspects of fluids at interfaces from molecular to macroscopic scales at the interface between physics, chemistry, and technological applications. Prof. Mugele’s research interest include electrowetting, wetting of complex surfaces, dynamic wetting, drop dynamics, two-phase flow microfluidics, AFM spectroscopy in fluids, confined liquids, nanofluidics, optofluidics, colloids, (micro-)rheology. Application areas include inkjet printing, immersion lithography, lab-on-a-chip systems – and in particular enhanced oil recovery.

As of 2017, Prof. Mugele has published more than 170 scientific articles, including the standard review on electrowetting (>1000 citations). His h-index is 37.

Chemistry

# Drop
# Surface

Engineering & Materials Science

# Atomic Force Microscopy
# Microfluidics
# Surface Charge
# Water
# Wetting

Physics & Astronomy

# Liquids

Faculty of Science and Technology (TNW), Physics of Complex Fluids (PCF)

Le, D. A. (2023). Microfluidic chips for oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs at elevated temperatures. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555043

Su, S. , Sîretanu, I. , Mei, B. T. , van den Ende, D. , Mul, G. , & Mugele, F. (2022). In situ AFM characterized facet dependent surface charge on semiconductor nanoparticles. Poster session presented at The 23rd International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Kap, Ö., Hartmann, S., Hoek, H. J. , de Beer, S. , Sîretanu, I., Thiele, U. , & Mugele, F. (2022). Spreading of volatile fluids on swelling hydrophobic polymer brush layers. Poster session presented at Bordeaux polymer conference BPC 2022, Boredeaux, France.

Mendel, N., Siretanu, D. , Sîretanu, I. , Brilman, D. W. F. , & Mugele, F. (2022). Adsorption of CO2 on anhydrous cation-exchanged montmorillonite. Poster session presented at The 2nd International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sîretanu, I. , Mugele, F. , van den Ende, D. , Mul, G. , Mei, B. T. , & Su, S. (2022). Facet-dependent surface charge and hydration of semiconducting nanoparticles. Poster session presented at NWO CHAINS 2022, Veldhoven, Netherlands.

Kumar, S. (2022). A study of complex solid-liquid interfaces by atomic force microscopy. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554909

Le-Anh, D. , Rao, A., Stetten, A. Z., Ayirala, S. C., Alotaibi, M. B. , Duits, M. H. G. , Gardeniers, H., AlYousef, A. A. , & Mugele, F. (2022). Oil Displacement in Calcite-Coated Microfluidic Chips via Waterflooding at Elevated Temperatures and Long Times. Micromachines, 13(8), [1316]. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13081316

Klaassen, A. , Liu, F. , Mugele, F. , & Siretanu, I. (2022). Correlation between Electrostatic and Hydration Forces on Silica and Gibbsite Surfaces: An Atomic Force Microscopy Study. Langmuir, 38(3), 914-926. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02077

Kumar, S., Cats, P., Alotaibi, M. B., Ayirala, S. C., Yousef, A. A., van Roij, R. , Siretanu, I. , & Mugele, F. (2022). Absence of anomalous underscreening in highly concentrated aqueous electrolytes confined between smooth silica surfaces. Journal of colloid and interface science, 622, 819-827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2022.05.004

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