This PhD thesis presents the latest research findings on nanofluid wetting kinetics, which has wide applications in nano/microscale processes and devices. It analyzes complex dynamic wetting by nanofluids using both experiments and multi-scale simulation methods, and presents multiscale (from nano to macroscale) mechanisms and tunable methods to elucidate and control nanofluid dynamic wetting. The book is of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in surface...

Le froid s’invite dans nos vies, les bonnets sont de sortie et les soirées plaid-tisane de la partie. Alors que Noël approche à grands pas, il est temps de réfléchir au programme des festivités. Primo : avec qui passer le réveillon ? Avec sa famille déjantée au grand complet ou en tandem pour un duo mère-fille ? Avec le fils de son boss et ses marmots ou avec ses collègues de travail ? Secundo : où festoyer ? Dans un manoir au coeur d’un domaine viticole, sur les routes enneigées du Québec...

LNCS 16360 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2025, held in Nanchang, China, during November 21–23, 2025.The 62 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Fingerprint, Palmprint and Vein Recognition; Human-Centric AIGC (Face Synthesis, Speech Synthesis, Gesture Generation, Human Motion Generation, etc.); Gait, Footprint; Face Relate...