Roles of chemistry modification for laser textured metal alloys to achieve extreme surface wetting behaviors

A Samanta, Q Wang, SK Shaw, H Ding - Materials & design, 2020 - Elsevier
Wetting behaviors of structured metal surfaces have received considerable attention due to
the wide range of applications for commercial, industrial, and military uses as well as …

Metal surface wettability modification by nanosecond laser surface texturing: A review

Z Liu, T Niu, Y Lei, Y Luo - Biosurface and Biotribology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Laser surface texturing (LST) is a non‐contact manufacturing process for fabricating
functional surfaces in a manner that improves the corresponding wettability, and is widely …

Ultrathin aluminum wick with dual-scale microgrooves for enhanced capillary performance

G Jiang, Z Tian, X Luo, C Chen, X Hu, L Wang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the burgeoning development of electronic devices with higher heat flux, thinner volume,
lighter weight, and flexibility, heat pipes and vapor chambers are facing big challenges …

Research status of femtosecond lasers and nanosecond lasers processing on bulk metallic glasses (BMGs)

W Zhang, P Zhang, H Yan, R Li, H Shi, D Wu… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the number of research work on the surface modification of metal glass by
laser processing has been increasing, indicating that the interaction between laser and …

Analytical and experimental on the capillary rise of aluminum multi-scale microgroove wick structures

C Wu, Y Tang, S Zhang, X Yuan, C Yan, H Tang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrathin vapor chambers (VCs) are the most typically used heat-sink components in the
development of thin and light electronic products. In this study, microgrooved aluminum …

Large-area surface wettability patterning of metal alloys via a maskless laser-assisted functionalization method

A Samanta, W Huang, M Bell, SK Shaw… - Applied surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
An innovative laser-assisted functionalization (LAF) method is presented in this work to
fabricate a superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic patterned surface on a large-area metal …

Design of chemical surface treatment for laser-textured metal alloys to achieve extreme wetting behavior

A Samanta, W Huang, H Chaudhry… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Extreme wetting activities of laser-textured metal alloys have received significant interest
due to their superior performance in a wide range of commercial applications and …

Influence of bio-inspired surface texture of additively manufactured 17-4 PH stainless steel adherends on the strength of adhesively bonded joints

N Naat, Y Boutar, S Naïmi, S Mezlini… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The bonding potential of as-printed additively manufactured stainless steel is largely
unknown, and the use of additional hierarchical bio-inspired surface texture has not yet …

Enabling superhydrophobicity-guided superwicking in metal alloys via a nanosecond laser-based surface treatment method

A Samanta, W Huang, ASMS Parveg… - … applied materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enabling capillary wicking on bulk metal alloys is challenging due to processing complexity
at different size scales. This work presents a laser-chemical surface treatment to fabricate …

Formation of leaf-shaped microstructure on Zr-based metallic glass via nanosecond pulsed laser irradiation

Y Qian, H Huang, C Wang, P Yu, J Xu… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2021 - Elsevier
Formation of regular micro/nano-structures on the surface of metallic glasses (MGs) is
beneficial to their functional applications. To pattern the MG surface, in this work, a polished …