2026 Glen McHale: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	70	4435	4292	178	167	260	17303

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Overview

Glen McHale is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in engineering and materials science. Their work extensively covers subfields such as surfaces, coatings and films, computational mechanics, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and mechanics of materials.

The main topics of Glen McHale's research include:

Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies
Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies

Glen McHale has published numerous articles across a range of scientific journals. Some recent papers include:

"Contact-Angle Hysteresis and Contact-Line Friction on Slippery Liquid-like Surfaces," 2020, Langmuir
"Flow and Drop Transport Along Liquid-Infused Surfaces," 2021, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
"Slippery Liquid-Like Solid Surfaces with Promising Antibiofilm Performance under Both Static and Flow Conditions," 2022, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
"Friction Coefficients for Droplets on Solids: The Liquid-Solid Amontons' Laws," 2022, Langmuir
"Hierarchical Nanotexturing Enables Acoustofluidics on Slippery yet Sticky, Flexible Surfaces," 2020, Nano Letters

Frequent co-authors in Glen McHale's collaborative work include Gary G. Wells, Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar, Yongqing Fu, Steven Armstrong, and Hamdi Torun.

The most common publication venues for Glen McHale's research are:

Langmuir
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Applied Physics Letters
arXiv (Cornell University)
Advanced Materials Interfaces

Best Publications

An introduction to superhydrophobicity

Neil J. Shirtcliffe;Glen McHale;Shaun Atherton;Michael I. Newton

746
Citations
Advances in piezoelectric thin films for acoustic biosensors, acoustofluidics and lab-on-chip applications

Yong Qing Fu;Yong Qing Fu;Jack Luo;Nam-Trung Nguyen;Anthony Walton

649
Citations
Dual‐Scale Roughness Produces Unusually Water‐Repellent Surfaces

Neil J. Shirtcliffe;Glen Mchale;Michael I. Newton;Gregoire Chabrol

622
Citations
Intrinsically Superhydrophobic Organosilica Sol−Gel Foams

Neil Shirtcliffe;Glen McHale;Michael Newton;Carole Perry

557
Citations
Analysis of droplet evaporation on a superhydrophobic surface.

McHale G;Aqil S;Shirtcliffe Nj;Newton Mi

515
Citations
Contact-angle hysteresis on super-hydrophobic surfaces.

Glen McHale;Neil Shirtcliffe;Michael Newton

486
Citations
Drop evaporation on solid surfaces: constant contact angle mode

H. Yildirim Erbil;Glen McHale;Michael Newton

473
Citations
Cassie and Wenzel: Were they really so wrong?

Glen McHale

455
Citations
Wetting and wetting transitions on copper-based super-hydrophobic surfaces

Neil Shirtcliffe;Glen McHale;Michael Newton;Carole Perry

387
Citations
Liquid marbles: principles and applications

Glen McHale;Michael I. Newton

363
Citations
Evaporation of microdroplets and the wetting of solid-surfaces

S. M. Rowan;M. I. Newton;G. McHale;G. McHale

362
Citations
Topological liquid diode

Jiaqian Li;Xiaofeng Zhou;Jing Li;Lufeng Che

329
Citations
Immersed superhydrophobic surfaces: Gas exchange, slip and drag reduction properties

Glen McHale;Michael I. Newton;Neil J. Shirtcliffe

304
Citations
Topography Driven Spreading

Glen McHale;Neil Shirtcliffe;Sanaa Aqil;Carole Perry

295
Citations
Superhydrophobic copper tubes with possible flow enhancement and drag reduction

Neil J. Shirtcliffe;Glen McHale;Michael I. Newton;Yong Zhang

271
Citations
DETERMINATION OF THE RECEDING CONTACT ANGLE OF SESSILE DROPS ON POLYMER SURFACES BY EVAPORATION

HY Erbil;G McHale;SM Rowan;MI Newton

264
Citations
Liquid marbles: topical context within soft matter and recent progress

Glen McHale;Michael Newton

256
Citations
The use of high aspect ratio photoresist (SU-8) for super-hydrophobic pattern prototyping

Neil J Shirtcliffe;Sanaa Aqil;Carl Evans;Glen McHale

241
Citations
POROUS MATERIALS SHOW SUPERHYDROPHOBIC TO SUPERHYDROPHILIC SWITCHING

Neil J. Shirtcliffe;Glen McHale;Michael I. Newton;Carole C. Perry

240
Citations
Nano-scale superhydrophobicity: suppression of protein adsorption and promotion of flow-induced detachment

Y. Koc;A. J. de Mello;G. McHale;M. I. Newton

240
Citations