Chen, Li-Jen ( 陳立仁 ) Professor. Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. Research and Professional Interests. Liquid crystal alignment film.

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1 Chen, Li-Jen ( 陳立仁 ) Professor B.S. in Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University, 1980 M.S. in Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University, 1984 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Rice University, 1989 Research and Professional Interests Gas hydrate and CO2 sequestration Interfacial phenomena Superhydrophobic surfaces Phase behavior experiments and Interfacial behavior measurements Liquid crystal alignment film Journal Papers 1. Huai-Ying Chin, Bong-Seop Lee, Yan-Ping Chen, Po-Chun Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin and Li-Jen Chen, 2013, Prediction of Phase Equilibrium of Methane Hydrates in the Presence of Ionic Liquids, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 52(47), (SCI, EI) 2. Huai-Ying Chin, Min-Kang Hsieh, Yan-Ping Chen, Po-Chun Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin and Li-Jen Chen, 2013, Prediction of Phase Equilibrium for Gas Hydrate in the Presence of Organic Inhibitors and Electrolytes by Using an Explicit Pressure-Dependent Langmuir Adsorption Constant in the van der Waals-Platteeuw Model, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 66, (SCI, EI) 3. Cheng-Hao Su and Li-Jen Chen, 2013, Liquid-liquid equilibria for the ternary system (water + tetradecane + 1-methyl-2-propoxyethoxy-2-propanol), Fluid Phase Equilibria 354, (SCI, EI) 4. Bang-Yan Liu and Li-Jen Chen, The Role of Surface Hydrophobicity in Pretilt Angle Control of Polymer-Stabilized Liquid Crystal Alignment Systems, J. Phys. Chem. C 117(26), (SCI, EI) 5. Hsuan-Lei Sung, Yueh-Lin Fan, Kimberly Yeh, Yen-Fu Chen and Li-Jen Chen, 2013, A new hydrate form of diflunisal precipitated from a microemulsion system, Colloids and Surfaces B 109, (SCI, EI) 6. Cheng-Hao Su and Li-Jen Chen, 2013, Liquid-Liquid Equilibria for the ternary system (water + hexadecane + dipropylene glycol n-propyl ether), Fluid Phase Equilibria 346, (SCI, EI) 7. I. V. Postnova, Li-Jen Chen, and Yu. A. Shchipunov, 2013, Synthesis of Monolithic Mesoporous Silica with a Regular Structure (SBA-15) and Macropores in Neutral Aqueous Solution at Room Temperature, Colloid Journal 75(2), (SCI, EI) 8. T. P. Adamova, O. S. Subbotin, Li-Jen Chen, and V. R. Belosludov, 2013, Theoretical Investigations of Possibility of Using Multicomponent (N 2-O 2-CH 4-H 2O) Clathrate Hydrates for Recovery of Methane from Mine Gas, Journal of Engineering Thermophysics 22(1), (SCI, EI) 9. Chih-Tien Cheng, Li-Jen Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin, Muoi Tang, Po-Chun Chen and Yan- Ping Chen, 2013, Measurements for the dissociation conditions of methane hydrate in the presence of 2,5-dihydrofuran and 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran, Fluid Phase Equilibria 338, (SCI, EI) 10. Arwut Promraksa, Yu-Chen Chuang and Li-Jen Chen, 2014, Study on the Wetting Transition of a Liquid Droplet Sitting on a Square-Array Cosine Wave-like Patterned Surface, J. Colloids Interfacial Sci. 418, (SCI, EI)

2 11. Kuan-Yu Yeh, Shao-Nung Huang, Li-Jen Chen and Shiang-Tai Lin, 2014, Diffusive and quantum effects of water properties in different states of matter, J. Chem. Phys. 141, (SCI, EI) 12. Kuan-Yu Yeh, Kuan-Hung Cho, Yu-Hao Yeh, Arwut Promraksa, Chung-Hsuan Huang, Cheng-Che Hsu and Li-Jen Chen, 2014, Observation of the rose petal effect over single and dual scale roughness surfaces, Nanotechnology 25, (SCI, EI) 13. Yu-Chen Chuang, Che-Kang Chu, Shih-Yao Lin and Li-Jen Chen, 2014, Evaporation of water droplets on soft patterned surfaces, Soft Matter 10, (SCI, EI) 14. Shih-Yao Lin, Cheng-Hao Su and Li-Jen Chen, 2014, Liquid-Liquid Equilibria for the Binary Systems of Propylene Glycol Ether +Water Measured by the Phase Volume Method, Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 45, (SCI, EI) 15. Ya-Hui Hsu, Hung-Wei Tsui, Chin-Fen Lee, Shin-Hong Chen and Li-Jen Chen, 2015, Effect of alcohols on the heat of micellization of Pluronic F88 aqueous solutions, Colloid and Polymer Science 293(12), Erratum: Colloid and Polymer Science 293(12), (SCI, EI) 16. Jyun-Yi Wu, Li-Jen Chen, Yan-Ping Chen, and Shiang-Tai Lin, 2015, Molecular Dynamics Study on the Growth Mechanism of Methane Plus Tetrahydrofuran Mixed Hydrates, J. Phys. Chem. C 119(34), (SCI, EI) 17. Che-Kang Chu, Po-Chun Chen, Yan-Ping Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin and Li-Jen Chen, 2015, A study on inhibition effect of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride on methane hydrate equilibrium, J. Chemical Thermodynamics 91, (SCI, EI) 18. I.V. Postnova, L.J. Chen, Y.A. Shchipunov, 2015, One-pot synthesis of monolithic macroporous polymethylsilsesquioxane absorbing oil, Colloid J. 77, (SCI, EI) 19. Shin-Hong Chen and Li-Jen Chen, 2015, Liquid-liquid equilibria for the ternary system water + octane + 2-butyloxy-ethanol, Fluid Phase Equilibria 399, (SCI, EI) 20. Shih-Yao Lin, Kai-Chieh Yang, and Li-Jen Chen, 2015, Effect of Surface Hydrophobicity on Critical Pinning Concentration of Nanoparticles To Trigger the Coffee Ring Formation during the Evaporation Process of Sessile Drops of Nanofluids, J. Phys. Chem. C 119(6), (SCI, EI) 21. Jyun-Yi Wu, Li-Jen Chen, Yan-Ping Chen and Shiang-Tai Lin, 2015, "Molecular Dynamics Study on the Equilibrium and Kinetic Properties of Tetrahydrofuran Clathrate Hydrates", J. Phys. Chem. C 119 (3), (SCI, EI) 22. Yu-Wan Juan, Muoi Tang, Li-Jen Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin, Po-Chen Chen, and Yan-Ping Chen, 2015, Measurements for the Dissociation Conditions of Methane Hydrate in the Presence of Cyclopentanone and 4-Hydroxy-4-methyl-2-pentanone Additives, Fluid Phase Equlibria 386, (SCI, EI) 23. Cheng-Hao Su and Li-Jen Chen, 2016, Wetting at the liquid-liquid interface of the ternary systems (water + dodecane + propylene glycol n-propyl ether) and (water + tetradecane + propylene glycol n-propyl ether), Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 68, (SCI, EI) 24. Jyun-Yi Wu, Li-Jen Chen, Yan-Ping Chen, and Shiang-Tai Lin, 2016, Molecular dynamics study on the nucleation of methane + tetrahydrofuran mixed guest hydrate, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, (SCI, EI) 25. Ya-Hui Hsu, Hung-Wei Tsui, Shi-Yow Lin and Li-Jen Chen, 2016, The origin of anomalous positive heat capacity change upon micellization of Pluronic triblock

3 copolymer F108 in aqueous solutions: effect of PEO-PPO diblock impurities, Colloids and Surfaces A 509, (SCI, EI) 26. Sadafara A. Pillai, Chin-Fen Lee, Debes Ray, Vinod K. Aswal, Haridas Pal, Li-Jen Chen and Pratap Bahadur, 2016, Microstructure of copolymeric micelles modulated by ionic liquids: investigating the role of anion and cation, RSC Advances 6, (SCI, EI) 27. Sadafara A. Pillai, Chin-Fen Lee, Li-Jen Chen, Prashant Bahadur, Vinod K. Aswal and Pratap Bahadur, 2016, Thermal and scattering studies of Tetronic 1304 micelles in the presence of industrially important glycols, their oligomers, cellosolves, carbitols, ethers and esters, Colloids and Surfaces A 506, (SCI, EI) 28. Sadafara A. Pillai, Chin-Fen Lee, Li-Jen Chen, Vinod K. Aswal and Pratap Bahadur, 2016, Glycine elicited self-assembly of amphiphilic star block copolymers with contradistinct hydrophobicities, Colloids and Surfaces A 506, (SCI, EI) 29. Che-Kang Chu, Shiang-Tai Lin, Yan-Ping Chen, Po-Chun Chen and Li-Jen Chen, 2016, Chain length effect of ionic liquid 1 alkyl 3 methylimidazolium chloride on the phase equilibrium of methane hydrate, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 413, (SCI, EI) 30. Mehul Khimani, Hsueh-Wen Tseng, Li-Jen Chen, Vinod K. Aswal, and Pratap Bahadur, 2017, Salt-assisted microstructure evaluation of hydrophilic block copolymer F98: A thermal and scattering study, Journal of Molecular Liquids 246, (SCI, EI) 31. Bang-Yan Liu, Ching-Hsuan Meng and Li-Jen Chen, 2017, Role of Monomer Alkyl Chain Length in Pretilt Angle Control of Polymer-Stabilized Liquid Crystal Alignment System, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121, (SCI, EI) 32. Bojan Šarac, Žiga Medoš, Alice Cognigni, Katharina Bica, Li-Jen Chen and Marija Bešter-Rogač, 2017, Thermodynamic Study for Micellization of Imidazolium Based Surface Active Ionic Liquids in Water: Effect of Alkyl Chain Length and Anions, Colloids and Surfaces A 532, (SCI, EI) Conference Papers 1. Bang-Yan Liu and Li-Jen Chen, Surface Hydrophobicity and Liquid Crystal Pretilt Angle in Polymer-Stabilized Liquid Crystal Alignment Systems, presented at the AIChE 2013 annual meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. 2. Shih-Yao Lin, Yu-Chen Chuang, Yung-Jih Yang, and Li-Jen Chen, Evaporation of a liquid drop deposited on a chemically heterogeneous striped surface, presented at the AIChE 2013 annual meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. 3. Hsueh-Wen TSENG, Po-Chia CHEN, Hsiao-Yun YEN, Li-Jen Chen, Effect of molecular weight of polyelectrolyte on the interaction between surfactant and polyelectrolyte, presented at the AIChE 2013 annual meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. 4. Yen-Lung Huang, Arwut Promraksa, Bang-Yan Liu, Yu-Ming Wang, and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of Contact Angle on the Ink Transfer Rate in the Gravure Offset Printing, presented at the AIChE 2013 annual meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. 5. Che-Kang Chu, Huai-Ying Chin, Bo-Chun Chen, Yan-Ping Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin and Li- Jen Chen, Effect of Chain Length of Ionic Liquid On the Formation of Methane Hydrate, presented at the AIChE 2013 annual meeting, San Francisco, California, USA

4 6. Arwut Promraksa, Kuan-Hung Cho, Kuan-Yu Yeh, Yu-Hao Yeh and Li-Jen Chen, Contact angle hysteresis of a liquid droplet sitting on a rough surface: simulation and experiments, delivered at the 5th Asian Conference on Colloid and Interface Science, November 20-23, 2013, Darjeeling, INDIA. (Invited talk, section chair) 7. Bang-Yan Liu, Ching-Hsuan Meng and Li-Jen Chen, Mechanism of Polymer Stabilization in Liquid Crystal Alignment: Surface Hydrophobicity and Pretilt Angle Control, presented at the 4th Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials, October 22-25, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan. 8. Yen-Lung Huang, Arwut Promraksa, Bang-Yan Liu, Jiannh Chen, Chiang-Shiang Lin, Ta-Hsin Chou, Yu-Ming Wang, Ying-Chih Liao and Li-Jen Chen Effect of Contact Angle on the Liquid Transfer in the Gravure Offset Printing, presented at the 4th Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials, October 22-25, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan. 9. Huai-Ying Chin, Min-Kang Hsieh, Po-Chun Chen, Yan-Ping Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin and Li-Jen Chen, Thermodynamic model for phase boundary of gas hydrates with and without additives by using an explicit pressure-dependent Langmuir adsorption constant, delivered at the Thermodynamics 2013, September 3-6, 2013, Manchester, UK. 10. Yu-Chen CHUANG and Li-Jen Chen, Water evaporation n soft patterned surfaces, presented at the 1 st Int. Workshop on Wetting and evaporation: droplets of pure and complex fluids, June 17 th to 20 th, 2013, Marseilles, France. 11. Yen-Lung Huang, Bang-Yan Liu, Jiannh Chen, Chiang-Shiang Lin, Ta-Hsin Chou Yu- Ming Wang, and Li-Jen Chen, The Contact Angle Effect on the Liquid Transfer in the Gravure Offset Printing, presented at the Large-area, Organic &Printed Electronics Conference, June 11-13, 2013, Messe Munchen, Germany. 12. Yu-Ming Wang, Wei-Yuan Chen, Chih-Wei Hsieh, Wen-Tung Hsu, Jiannh Chen, Chiang- Shiang Lin, Li-Jen Chen and Ta-Hsin Chou, Gravure Plate Fabricated by Using a Laser Ablation Process for Printing Patterned Fine Lines, presented at the Large-area, Organic &Printed Electronics Conference, June 11-13, 2013, Messe Munchen, Germany. 13. Li-Jen Chen, Kuan-Yu Yeh, Arwut Promraksa and Hui-Ping Lin, Observation of rose petal effect on single microscale or nanoscale roughness surfaces, delivered at the AIChE 2014 annual meeting, Atlanta, USA. 14. Che-Kang Chu, Yan-Ping Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin and Li-Jen Chen, Measurements and Prediction of Methane Hydrate Equilibrium in the Presence of Ionic Liquid 1-Ethyl-3- Methylimidazolium Chloride, presented at the 12th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments, September 1-6, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan (Best student poster paper) 15. Che-Kang Chu, Po-Chun Chen, Yan-Ping Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin and Li-Jen Chen, Chain length effect of ionic liquids on the inhibition of methane hydrate formation, presented at the 8 th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, July 28- August 1, 2014, Beijing, China. 16. Kuan-Yu Yeh, Shang-Tai Lin and Li-Jen Chen, Enthalpy, entropy and free energy of methane hydrate from molecular dynamics simulations, presented at the 8 th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, July 28- August 1, 2014, Beijing, China. 17. Bang-Yan Liu and Li-Jen Chen, Asymmetric Wetting Behavior on Structured Surfaces, presented at the 9 th Liquid Matter Conference, July 21-15, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal. 18. Hui-Ping Lin, Kuan-Yu Yeh and Li-Jen Chen, Observation of petal effect on microstructured surfaces, presented at the 9 th Liquid Matter Conference, July 21-15, 2014,

5 Lisbon, Portugal. 19. Bang-Yan Liu and Li-Jen Chen, Control the asymmetry wetting on structured surface by linear solid fraction, presented at 中華民國界會科學學會年會暨論文發表會, July 11, 2014, Tainan, Taiwan. 20. Hui-Ping Lin, Kuan-Yu Yeh and Li-Jen Chen, Petal effect of micro-structured surfaces, presented at 中華民國界會科學學會年會暨論文發表會, July 11, 2014, Tainan, Taiwan. 21. Shih-Yao Lin and Li-Jen Chen, Evaporation of a water drop containing suspension nanoparticles on homogeneous surfaces with different hydrophobicities, presented at 中華民國界會科學學會年會暨論文發表會, July 11, 2014, Tainan, Taiwan. 22. Hsueh-Wen Tseng, Po-Chia Chen, Chih-Hsiang Wang, Hsiao-Yun Yen and Li-Jen Chen, Polymer molecular weight effect on complex formation between poly(acrylic acid) and tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide, presented at the 20 th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution, June 22-27, 2014, Coimbra, Portugal. 23. Kuan-Yu Yeh, Kuan-Hung Cho, Yu-Hao Yeh, Arwut Promraksa, and Li-Jen Chen, Is dual scale roughness a necessary condition for a surface of petal effect? delivered at the 6th Asian Conference on Colloid and Interface Science, November 24-27, 2015, Sesabo, Japan. (invited talk) (section chairman) (international advisory committee) 24. H.Y. Chin, M.K. Hsieh, Y.P. Chen, S.T. Lin, L.J. Chen, A predictive thermodynamic model for phase behavior of gas hydrates, presented at the 62 nd TwIChE Annual Conference, November 5-7, 2015, 高雄. (invited talk) 25. Shih-Yao Lin, Kai-Chieh Yang and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of Surface Hydrophobicity on the Self-pinning and Critical Pinning Concentration of Coffee-Ring Formation, delivered at the 5 th Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials, November 1-4, 2015, Busan, Korea. (invited talk) (section chairman) (international advisory committee). 26. Yen-An Chen, Che-Kang Chu, and Li-Jen Chen, Measurement of diffusion coefficient of methane in brine at high pressures, presented at the 10 th European Congress of Chemical Engineering, September 27- October 1, 2015, Nice, France. 27. Chin-Fen Lee, Ya-Hui Hsu, Hung-Wei Tsui, Shin-Hon Chen and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of alcohols on the micellization process of Pluronic F88, presented at the 10 th European Congress of Chemical Engineering, September 27- October 1, 2015, Nice, France. 28. Hsueh-Wen Tseng, Po-Chia Chen, Hung-Wei Tsui, and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of molecular weight of poly(acrylic acid) on the interaction between tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide and poly(acrylic acid), presented at the 3rd Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEECTAC3), August 25 28, 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 29. Che-Kang Chu, Bo-Chun Chen, Cheng-Yueh Wei, Yan-Ping Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin, and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of chain length of ionic liquids on the dissociation temperature of methane hydrate at high pressures by using a high pressure differential scanning calorimetry, delivered at the 3rd Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEECTAC3), August 25 28, 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 30. Shih-Yao Lin, Kai-Chieh Yang and Li-Jen Chen, Critical pinning concentration of coffee-ring formation for surfaces of different hydriphobicities, delivered at the IV -2015, June 3-5, 2015, Almaty, Kazakhstan

6 31. Bang-Yan Liu and Li-Jen Chen, Wetting and de-wetting resistance on asymmetric structure surface in Wenzal state, presented at the 15th Conference of the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists, May 24-29, 2015, Mainz, Germany. 32. Ding-Long Chen and Li-Jen Chen, Observation of Wetting Behavior in Hydrophilic Patterned Surfaces Using Captive Bubble Method, presented at the 15th Conference of the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists, May 24-29, 2015, Mainz, Germany. 33. Shih-Yao Lin, Kai-Chieh Yang and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of Surface Hydrophobicity on the Coffee-Ring Formation, delivered at the 15th Conference of the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists, May 24-29, 2015, Mainz, Germany. 34. 朱哲慷 陳柏淳 魏正岳 陳延平 林祥泰 陳立仁, 離子液體的分子碳鏈長度對甲烷水合物相平衡的影響 中華民國地球物理學會與中華民國地質學會 104 年年會暨學術研討會,8-4-R-ER5-2102, 第 495 頁, 陳彥安 朱哲慷 陳立仁 高壓甲烷於水中之擴散係數量測 中華民國地球物理學會與中華民國地質學會 104 年年會暨學術研討會,8-4-R-ER5-2100, 第 493 頁, Li-Jen Chen, Thermodynamic Research Activities of Gas Hydrates in Taiwan: Experiments, Modeling, Molecular Simulation, and Reservoir Simulations, delivered at the Gas Hydrates Conference, April 13, 2015, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan. (Plenary talk). 37. Li-Jen Chen, Gas Hydrate Research Activities in Taiwan: Experiments, Thermodynamic Modeling, Molecular Simulation, and Reservoir Simulations, delivered at 2015 程序系統工程暨熱力學研討會 (the 2015 PSE and Thermodynamics Conference), April 10-12, 金門. (Plenary talk) 38. Hsueh-Wen Tseng, Po-Chia Chen, Hung-Wei Tsui and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of molecular weight of poly(acrylic acid) on the interaction of oppositely charged ionic surfactantpolyelectrolyte mixtures, presented at the International Workshop on Polyelectrolytes in Chemistry, Biology and Technology, January 26-28, 2015, Singapore. 39. Li-Jen Chen, Che-Kang Chu, Yan-Ping Chen and Shiang-Tai Lin, Effect of Ionic Liquids on the Phase Behaviour of Methane Hydrate: Experiments and Modeling, delivered at the 2016 International Conference for Leading and Young Materials Scientists, December 25-28, 2016, Sanya, China. (Invited talk) 40. Liang-Kai Chu, Yen-An Chen, Che-Kang Chu, Po-Chun Chen and Li-Jen Chen, Using Ethanol as a Kinetic Promoter for Methane Hydrate Formation, delivered at the 13th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments, September 19-22, 2016, Tromsø, Norway. 41. Yen-An Chen, Che-Kang Chu, and Li-Jen Chen, Determination of the Diffusion Coefficients of Methane in Water/Brine at 100 bar, presented at the 13th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments, September 19-22, 2016, Tromsø, Norway. 42. Chin-Fen Lee and Li-Jen Chen, Kinetic effect of Pluronic F108 aqueous solutions on the gel formation, presented at the 30th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, September 4-9, 2016, Rome, Italy. 43. Kai-Chieh Yang, Shih-Yao Lin and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of Particle Size and Surface Hydrophobicity on Critical Pinning Concentration of Coffee-Ring Formation, presented at the 30th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, September 4-9, 2016, Rome, Italy. 44. Shan Li and Li Jen Chen, Contact Angle Hysteresis of a Water Droplet on Regular

7 Pillar-like Hydrophilic Patterned Surfaces, presented at the 30th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, September 4-9, 2016, Rome, Italy. 45. Che-Kang Chu, Cheng-Yueh Wei, Yan-Ping Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin, and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of Ionic Liquids on the Phase Behaviour of Methane Hydrate, delivered at the 24th IUPAC International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics, August 21-26, 2016, Guilin, China. (Invited talk). 46. Kai-Chieh Yang, Shih-Yao Lin and Li-jen Chen, Effect of Particle Size and Surface Hydrophobicity on Critical Pinning Concentration of Coffee-Ring Formation, delivered at 2016 Symposium on Thermodynamics & Process Systems Engineering, May 13-14, 2016, Xitou, Taiwan. 47. Hsueh-Wen Tseng, Chin-Fen Lee and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of Chain Length and Hydrophobicity of Pluronic Surfactants on the Aggregation Behavior of Binary Mixed- Pluronic Systems, presented at 2016 Symposium on Thermodynamics & Process Systems Engineering, May 13-14, 2016, Xitou, Taiwan. 48. Che-Kang Chu, Liang-Kai Chu and Li-Jen Chen, Phase boundary and heat of dissociation of the THF/methane mixed hydrates, delivered at 2016 Symposium on Thermodynamics & Process Systems Engineering, May 13-14, 2016, Xitou, Taiwan. 49. Yen-An Chen, Che-Kang Chu, and Li-Jen Chen, Measurement of Diffusion Coefficients of Methane in Brine at High Pressure presented at 2016 Symposium on Thermodynamics & Process Systems Engineering, May 13-14, 2016, Xitou, Taiwan. 50. Shan Li and Li-Jen Chen, Contact Angle Hysteresis of a Water Droplet on Regular Pillar-like Hydrophilic Patterned Surfaces, delivered at 2016 Symposium on Thermodynamics & Process Systems Engineering, May 13-14, 2016, Xitou, Taiwan. 51. Li-Jen Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin and Yan-Ping Chen, Prediction of phase boundary of gas hydrate in the presence of additives by using an explicit pressure-dependent Langmuir adsorption constant in the van der Waals-Platteeuw model, presented at the Gordon Research Conference: Natural Gas Hydrate Systems, February 28 - March 4, 2016, Galveston, Texas, USA. 52. Kai-Chieh Yang, Shih-Yao Lin, Kuan-Hung Cho and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of Surface Hydrophobicity and Particle Size on the Self-pinning Concentration for the Coffee Ring Formation, delivered at The 13th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference, October 22-25, 2017, Antalya, Turkey. 53. Li-Jen Chen, Wetting and Phase Behaviour in Ternary Mixtures of the Type Water + Oil + Surfactant CiEj, delivered at The Asian Conference on Oleo Science 2017 (ACOS 2017), September 11-13, 2017, Tokyo, Japan. (Plenary talk) 54. Peiheng Chang and Li-Jen Chen, Observation of impregnating wetting behaviour of a liquid drop on hydrophilic patterned surfaces, delivered at the 31st Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, September 3-8, 2017, Madrid, Spain. 55. Hsueh-Peng Chuang, Arwut Promraksa and Li-Jen Chen, Modeling contact angle of a liquid droplet sitting on a cosine wave-like square-array pattern surface with different surface roughnesses, presented at the 31st Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, September 3-8, 2017, Madrid, Spain. 56. Kai-Chieh Yang and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of Particle Size on the Coffee Ring Formation on Different Hydrophobic Surfaces, delivered at the 7th Asian Conference on Colloid and Interface Science., August 8-11, 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Invited talk). 57. Kai-Chieh Yang, Shih-Yao Lin and Li-Jen Chen, Effect of Particle Size and Surface

8 Hydrophobicity on Self-Pinning Behavior of Nanofluid Droplets, presented at the Bubble & Drop 2017, June 26-30, 2017, Lyon, France. 58. Liang-Kai Chu, Yen-An Chen, Che-Kang Chu, Bo-Chun Chen, and Li-Jen Chen, Using Ethanol as a Kinetic Promoter for Methane Hydrate Formation and Dissociation via Ice Seed Method, presented at the 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, June 25-30, 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. 59. Yen-An Chen, Laing-Kai Chu, Che-Kang Chu, Bo-Chun Chen, and Li-Jen Chen, Kinetic Effect of Ethanol on Carbon Dioxide Hydrate Formation and Dissociation via Ice Seed Method, presented at the 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, June 25-30, 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. 60. Li-Jen Chen, Cheng-Hao Su, Chih-Kang Wu and Ping-Chang Lin, Wetting Behavior in Binary Mixtures of the Type Water + Ethylene Glycol Ether, presented at The 18th International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behavior and Fouling, June 11-15, 2017, Le Havre, France