Reducing the contact time of bouncing droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces: Foundations, strategies and applications

Y Fan, Y Tan, Y Dou, S Huang, X Tian - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The growing demands for superhydrophobic materials in real-world applications, such as
anti-icing, heat management, and energy harvesting, cannot be met by solely considering …

Chemistry in phase change energy storage: Properties regulation on organic phase change materials by covalent bond modification

L Geng, J Cui, C Zhang, Y Yan, J Zhao, C Liu - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs)-based thermal storage systems have a lot of potential uses
in energy storage and temperature control. However, organic PCMs (OPCMs) face …

Contaminant removal from nature's self-cleaning surfaces

S Perumanath, R Pillai, MK Borg - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many organisms in nature have evolved superhydrophobic surfaces that leverage water
droplets to clean themselves. While this ubiquitous self-cleaning process has substantial …

Enhanced horizontal mobility of a coalesced jumping droplet on superhydrophobic surfaces with an asymmetric ridge

S Gao, Z Hu, X Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Enhancing the horizontal mobility of coalesced droplets on a plane could promote droplet
jumping. Here, we achieve enhanced horizontal mobility of a coalesced jumping droplet on …

Contact time of droplet impact against an inclined hydrophobic surface

SR Gao, BJ Wei, JX Jin, YF Wang, SF Zheng… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This work presents a study of a droplet impacting an inclined hydrophobic surface using
lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) simulation. The influence of surface inclination, surface …

Dynamics and maximum spreading of droplet impact on a stationary droplet on the surface

Y Li, X Wu, Y Lin, Z Hu - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
In numerous applications related to droplet impact, impacting droplets often interact with
solid surfaces with adhesive droplets rather than dry surfaces, but the former is significantly …

Molecular dynamics simulations of droplet coalescence and impact dynamics on the modified surfaces: A review

T Li - Computational Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The effective control of droplet coalescence and impact behaviors on solid surfaces plays a
crucial role in various fields, such as material science, environmental science, energy …

Impact dynamics of droplets on the well-designed wrinkled surfaces: Enhancement of bounding ability

T Li - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Designing the nanostructured substrates with efficiently executing self-cleaning functions
such as anti-icing, anti-fogging, anti-flaming, and anti-corrosion is always a hot scientific …

Controllable coalescence dynamics of nanodroplets on textured surfaces decorated with well-designed wrinkled nanostructures: A molecular dynamics study

T Li, L Zhang, H Li - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
The control of coalescence and motion of droplets play a significant role in advanced
technology and our daily life, and one of the most important approaches is surface design …

Bouncing dynamics of nanodroplets impacting superhydrophobic surfaces: The coupling influence of wetting transitions and scale effects

BX Zhang, ZH Cai, Q Ding, KQ Zhu, YR Yang… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2023 - Elsevier
When nanodroplets rebound from nanopillar-arrayed superhydrophobic surfaces, the
coupling influence of wetting transitions and scale effects on the bouncing dynamics is for …