Fast water evaporation from nanopores

Z Huang, B Chen, X Mo, X Yang, L Yu… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fast water evaporation is of fundamental importance for natural biological regulation and
industry applications. Here, for the first time, it is demonstrated that fast evaporation can be …

Revealing the truncated conical geometry of nanochannels in anodic aluminium oxide membranes

J Zhang, H Zhao, M Gong, L Zhang, Z Yan, K Xie, G Fei… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) membranes with self-ordered nanochannels have become
promising candidates for applications in the aspects such as structural coloration, photonic …

Mass accommodation coefficients of water on organics from complementary photoacoustic and light scattering measurements on laser-trapped droplets

S Roy, ME Diveky, R Signorell - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The mass accommodation coefficient, α M, describes evaporation and condensation kinetics
at the liquid–vapor interface. In spite of numerous experimental efforts, reliable values of α M …

Rendering SiO2/Si surfaces omniphobic by carving gas-entrapping microtextures comprising reentrant and doubly reentrant cavities or pillars

S Arunachalam, EM Domingues, R Das… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2020 - jove.com
We present microfabrication protocols for rendering intrinsically wetting materials repellent
to liquids (omniphobic) by creating gas-entrapping microtextures (GEMs) on them …

Atomic scale interfacial transport at an extended evaporating meniscus

Y Akkus, A Koklu, A Beskok - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
Recent developments in fabrication techniques have enabled the production of nano-and
Ångström-scale conduits. While scientists are able to conduct experimental studies to …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane distillation against a pressure difference

L Keulen, LV Van Der Ham, NJM Kuipers… - Journal of membrane …, 2017 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation is an attractive technology for production of fresh water from seawater.
The MemPower® concept, studied in this work, uses available heat (86° C) to produce …

Electrokinetic transport of monovalent and divalent cations in silica nanochannels

S Prakash, HA Zambrano, KK Rangharajan… - Microfluidics and …, 2016 - Springer
Electrokinetic transport of aqueous electrolyte solutions in nanochannels and nanopores is
considered important toward the understanding of fundamental ion transport in many …

Organic–inorganic hybrid self-pigmenting effect of anodic aluminium oxide membranes

J Zhang, W Zhang, W Xu, K Xie, Q Shan… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) membranes with hexagonally packed nanochannel arrays
have been utilized as a promising template to develop functional nanostructures. The …

Mechanics of gas-vapor bubbles

Y Hao, Y Zhang, A Prosperetti - Physical review fluids, 2017 - APS
Most bubbles contain a mixture of vapor and incondensible gases. While the limit cases of
pure vapor and pure gas bubbles are well studied, much less is known about the more …

[HTML][HTML] Machine Learning techniques for fluid flows at the nanoscale

F Sofos, TE Karakasidis - Fluids, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simulations of fluid flows at the nanoscale feature massive data production and machine
learning (ML) techniques have been developed during recent years to leverage them …