• Alex D. Nikolov, Darsh T. Wasan and Pingkeng Wu, (2021), Marangoni flow alters wetting: Coffee ring and superspreading, in Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 51:101387.

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• Alex Nikolov , Sohail Murad, Darsh Wasan, Pingkeng Wu (2020) How the capillarity and ink-air flow govern the performance of a fountain pen, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 578, 660–667.

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• Hua Zhang, Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, Alexander Nikolov and Darsh Wasan, (2020), US Patent No: 10,781,678, B2, Methods and Systems for Enhanced Oil recovery Employing Nanofluids.     

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• Alex Nikolov, PingkengWu, Darsh Wasan, (2019), Structure and stability of nanofluid films wetting solids: An overview, in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 264, 1-10.

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• Alex Nikolov, Darsh Wasan, Jongju, Lee, (2018), Tears of wine: The dance of the droplets Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 256, 94–100.

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• Pingkeng Wu, Alex D. Nikolov, Darsh T. Wasan (2018), Two-phase displacement dynamics in capillaries-nanofluid reduces the frictional coefficient, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 532, 153–160.

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• Hua Zhang, T.S. Ramakrishnan, Alex Nikolov, Darsh Wasan, (2018), Enhanced oil displacement by nanofluid’s structural disjoining pressure in model fractured porous media, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 51, 48–56.

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• Alex Nikolov, Darsh Wasan, (2017), Oil lenses on the air–water surface and the validity of Neumann's rule, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 244, 174–183.

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• Alex Nikolov , Darsh Wasan, (2015),  Current opinion in superspreading mechanisms, in  Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 222, 517–529.

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• Jongju Lee, Alex Nikolov, and Darsh Wasan, (2016) Stratification of a Foam Film Formed from a Nonionic Micellar Solution: Experiments and Modeling, Langmuir,  32, 4837−4847.

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• Darsh T. Wasan and lex D. Nikolov (2003), Spreading of nanofluids on solids, Nature 423, 156-159.