Hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces: Features of interaction with liquid drops

DV Antonov, AG Islamova, PA Strizhak - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The processes of interaction of liquid droplets with solid surfaces have become of interest to
many researchers. The achievements of world science should be used for the development …

Influence of surface topography attributes on settlement and adhesion of natural and synthetic species

S Erramilli, J Genzer - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface topographies of various sizes, shapes, and spatial organization abound in nature.
They endow properties such as super-hydrophobicity, reversible adhesion, anti-fouling, self …

Influence of ambient conditions on evaporation and transport of respiratory droplets in indoor environment

R Pal, S Sarkar, A Mukhopadhyay - International Communications in Heat …, 2021 - Elsevier
Respiratory droplets are playing a significant role in the transmission of any flu type disease
as well as SARS-Cov-2 virus. The presence of pathogens affects the evaporation of the …

Rational micro/nanostructuring for thin-film evaporation

N Farokhnia, P Irajizad, SM Sajadi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Heat management in electronics and photonics devices is a critical challenge impeding
accelerated breakthrough in these fields. Among approaches for heat dissipation, thin-film …

Universal wetting transition of an evaporating water droplet on hydrophobic micro-and nano-structures

A Bussonnière, MB Bigdeli, DY Chueh, Q Liu, P Chen… - Soft matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Water-repellent, rough surfaces have a remarkable and beneficial wetting property: when a
water droplet comes in contact with a small fraction of the solid, both liquid–solid adhesion …

A simple model of heating and evaporation of droplets on a superhydrophobic surface

DV Antonov, RM Fedorenko, PA Strizhak… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A new model for heating and evaporation of a droplet on a superhydrophobic surface is
proposed. The model uses the analytical solution to the spherically symmetric heat transfer …

Droplet evaporation on two-tier hierarchical micro-pillar array surface

T Wang, N Wang, Y Zheng, S Shen, G Liang - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
As surface modification becomes a promising approach to thermal management, quantifying
effects of surface structure geometrical dimension is of great significance to optimize heat …

Fabrication and characterization of fluffy mono-coated copper meshes and their applications for oil/water separation

R Gulfam, P Zhang - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The textured-metallic meshes with superhydrophilic-superoleophobic and
superhydrophobic-superoleophilic wetting have captured a widespread attention especially …

Effect of structure hierarchy for superhydrophobic polymer surfaces studied by droplet evaporation

N Okulova, P Johansen, L Christensen, R Taboryski - Nanomaterials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Super-hydrophobic natural surfaces usually have multiple levels of structure hierarchy.
Here, we report on the effect of surface structure hierarchy for droplet evaporation. The two …

Hierarchical structured surfaces enhance the contact angle of the hydrophobic (meta-stable) state

I Patrícia da Silva Ramos, C Gavazzoni… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The relation between wetting properties and geometric parameters of fractal surfaces are
widely discussed on the literature and, however, there are still divergences on this topic …