Understanding and utilizing droplet impact on superhydrophobic surfaces: phenomena, mechanisms, regulations, applications, and beyond

Z Hu, F Chu, H Shan, X Wu, Z Dong… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet impact is a ubiquitous liquid behavior that closely tied to human life and production,
making indispensable impacts on the big world. Nature‐inspired superhydrophobic surfaces …

Droplet impacting dynamics: Recent progress and future aspects

X Wang, B Xu, S Guo, Y Zhao, Z Chen - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Droplet impact behaviours are widely applied in a variety of domains including self-cleaning,
painting and coating, corrosion of turbine blades and aircraft, separation and oil repellency …

Impact of viscous droplets on different wettable surfaces: Impact phenomena, the maximum spreading factor, spreading time and post-impact oscillation

S Lin, B Zhao, S Zou, J Guo, Z Wei, L Chen - Journal of colloid and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we experimentally investigated the impact dynamics of different viscous
droplets on solid surfaces with diverse wettabilities. We show that the outcome of an …

Controlling liquid splash on superhydrophobic surfaces by a vesicle surfactant

M Song, J Ju, S Luo, Y Han, Z Dong, Y Wang, Z Gu… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Deposition of liquid droplets on solid surfaces is of great importance to many fundamental
scientific principles and technological applications, such as spraying, coating, and printing …

Overflow control for sustainable development by superwetting surface with biomimetic structure

S Zhou, L Jiang, Z Dong - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Liquid flowing around a solid edge, ie, overflow, is a commonly observed flow behavior.
Recent research into surface wetting properties and microstructure-controlled overflow …

Enhancing droplet deposition on wired and curved superhydrophobic leaves

M Song, D Hu, X Zheng, L Wang, Z Yu, W An, R Na… - Acs Nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Droplet deposition on superhydrophobic surfaces has been a great challenge owing to the
shortness of the impact contact time. Despite recent research progress regarding flat …

Superhydrophobic shish-kebab membrane with self-cleaning and oil/water separation properties

S Sun, L Zhu, X Liu, L Wu, K Dai, C Liu… - ACS Sustainable …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In nature, the water-repellent surface of a superhydrophobic material such as lotus has the
micro/nano hierarchical structure, while shish-kebab, which is one of the most fascinating …

Breaking the symmetry to suppress the Plateau–Rayleigh instability and optimize hydropower utilization

Z Zhao, H Li, A Li, W Fang, Z Cai, M Li, X Feng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Droplet impact on solid surfaces is essential for natural and industrial processes.
Particularly, controlling the instability after droplet impact, and avoiding the satellite drops …

Superhydrophobic TiO2–Polymer Nanocomposite Surface with UV-Induced Reversible Wettability and Self-Cleaning Properties

QF Xu, Y Liu, FJ Lin, B Mondal… - ACS applied materials & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Multifunctional superhydrophobic nanocomposite surfaces based on photocatalytic
materials, such as fluorosilane modified TiO2, have generated significant research interest …

Phase-field simulations of droplet impact on superhydrophobic surfaces

L Xia, F Chen, T Liu, D Zhang, Y Tian… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although the impingement of droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces has been extensively
studied, the critical role of the air is typically ignored, leading to some paradoxical …