▪ Abstract We discuss the thickness of the liquid layer entrained by a solid drawn out of a
bath, focusing on the case where the solid is a fiber or a wire. Slow withdrawals out of a pure …

We review the recent research on structure-induced water collecting properties of spider silk
and bioinspired fibers. Since the capture silks of cribellate spiders have a unique wet-rebuilt …

Liquid entrainment with a solid architecture passing through the fluid-fluid interface is
ubiquitous and widely used in industrial processes as a liquid transfer method. Besides …

Due to recent advances in nanofabrication, phase-change condensation heat transfer has
seen a renaissance. Compared to conventional heat transfer surfaces, nanostructured …

Figure 1a shows a schematic of the fabrication setup. A nylon fiber (see Figure S1,
Supporting Information (SI)) is horizontally fed through a reservoir of polymer solution in …

Because of surface tension, liquid films coating fibers or the insides of capillary tubes are
usually unstable and break up into a periodic array of droplets. However, if these films are …

When an object is withdrawn from a bath of a viscous and wetting liquid, a liquid film
adheres to its surface and liquid is thus lifted out of the bath. The simplest case is that in …

In this work we present an experimental study of deviations from the classical Landau-
Levich law in the problem of dip coating. Among the examined causes leading to deviations …

The production of nanofibers from an aqueous solution of poly (vinyl alcohol) by the method
of free surface electrospinning from a wire electrode has been examined. The results are …

A theory of the amount of liquid entrained by cylinders upon withdrawal from liquid baths is
derived for a wide range of cylinder radii. The theory is based on matching curvatures for …