Life and death of liquid-infused surfaces: a review on the choice, analysis and fate of the infused liquid layer

S Peppou-Chapman, JK Hong, A Waterhouse… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid-infused surfaces (or lubricant-infused surfaces)(LIS) are a new class of functional
materials introduced in 2011. Their exceptional properties have earned them a place at the …

Flow and drop transport along liquid-infused surfaces

S Hardt, G McHale - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Liquid-infused surfaces (LISs) are composite solid–liquid surfaces with remarkable features
such as liquid repellency, self-healing, and the suppression of fouling. This review focuses …

What are the design principles, from the choice of lubricants and structures to the preparation method, for a stable slippery lubricant-infused porous surface?

X Chen, G Wen, Z Guo - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite decades of research, superhydrophobic surfaces still rely on a stable air layer that is
plagued with problems, such as poor pressure stability, the inability to self-heal, and the …

Wetting ridges on slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces

HH Tran, D Lee, D Riassetto - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) show remarkable liquid repellency, making
them useful for many coating applications. The outstanding repellency of SLIPS comes from …

Dropwise condensation: From fundamentals of wetting, nucleation, and droplet mobility to performance improvement by advanced functional surfaces

SF Zheng, U Gross, XD Wang - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
As a ubiquitous vapor-liquid phase-change process, dropwise condensation has attracted
tremendous research attention owing to its remarkable efficiency of energy transfer and …

Bioinspired functional SLIPSs and wettability gradient surfaces and their synergistic cooperation and opportunities for enhanced condensate and fluid transport

F Lv, F Zhao, D Cheng, Z Dong, H Jia, X Xiao… - Advances in colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bioinspired smart functional surfaces have received increasing attention in recent years
owed to their tunable wettability and enhanced droplet transport suggesting them as …

Liquid infused surfaces with anti-icing properties

G Wang, Z Guo - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Ice accretion on solid surfaces, a ubiquitous phenomenon that occurs in winter, brings much
inconvenience to daily life and can even cause serious catastrophes. Icephobic surfaces, a …

Liquid-solid triboelectric nanogenerators for a wide operation window based on slippery lubricant-infused surfaces (SLIPS)

Z Chen, Y Lu, R Li, RJ Orlando, R Manica… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) have emerged as suitable devices that are suitable to
harvest widely abundant and renewable blue energy. However, a major drawback in related …

Modelling double emulsion formation in planar flow-focusing microchannels

N Wang, C Semprebon, H Liu, C Zhang… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Double emulsion formation in a hierarchical flow-focusing channel is systematically
investigated using a free-energy ternary lattice Boltzmann model. A three-dimensional …

Universality of friction laws on liquid-infused materials

A Keiser, P Baumli, D Vollmer, D Quéré - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
Liquid-infused surfaces (LISs) make drops remarkably mobile. However, the dynamics of
those drops proved to be subtle, due to the numerous phases at stake (lubricating liquid …