Expérimental et théorique
Salty water is everywhere (oceans, underground, and even in the atmosphere). The way it reacts to humidity changes is important in many natural, societal and technological contexts (water harvesting, cultural heritage preservation, geophysics, civil engineering, aerosol and cloud formation, energy conversion, etc.). We follow parallel research investigations (with experiments, theory and/or numerical simulations) to elucidate how surfaces, nanoscale confinement and disorder, which can be found in many of these contexts, dictate the dynamics and patterns that emerge from transport and/or phase change of salt solutions.