Bioinspired materials for droplet manipulation: principles, methods and applications

J Xu, S Xiu, Z Lian, H Yu, J Cao - Droplet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet manipulation techniques such as transport and merging have been widely used in
many fields including biology, chemistry, material and energy applications. Moreover …

[HTML][HTML] Superoleophobic surfaces

J Yong, F Chen, Q Yang, J Huo, X Hou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Superoleophobicity is a phenomenon where the contact angles of various oil droplets with
low surface tension on a solid surface are larger than 150°. In the past few years, there has …

Bio-inspired sustainable and durable superhydrophobic materials: from nature to market

M Ghasemlou, F Daver, EP Ivanova… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nature has endowed many of its living systems with functional structures with highly tuned
wettability. Inspired by nature, scientists began to mimic these natural templates and as a …

Robust and eco-friendly superhydrophobic starch nanohybrid materials with engineered lotus leaf mimetic multiscale hierarchical structures

M Ghasemlou, PH Le, F Daver… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The use of superhydrophobic surfaces in a broad range of applications is receiving a great
deal of attention due to their numerous functionalities. However, fabricating these surfaces …

[HTML][HTML] Nature-inspired superwettability achieved by femtosecond lasers

J Yong, Q Yang, X Hou, F Chen - Ultrafast Science, 2022 - spj.science.org
Wettability is one of a solid surface's fundamental physical and chemical properties, which
involves a wide range of applications. Femtosecond laser microfabrication has many …

Superhydrophobic surfaces fabricated by femtosecond laser with tunable water adhesion: from lotus leaf to rose petal

J Long, P Fan, D Gong, D Jiang, H Zhang… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Superhydrophobic surfaces with tunable water adhesion have attracted much interest in
fundamental research and practical applications. In this paper, we used a simple method to …

Recent Advances in TiO2‐Based Nanostructured Surfaces with Controllable Wettability and Adhesion

Y Lai, J Huang, Z Cui, M Ge, KQ Zhang, Z Chen, L Chi - small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Bioinspired surfaces with special wettability and adhesion have attracted great interest in
both fundamental research and industry applications. Various kinds of special wetting …

[PDF][PDF] Femtosecond laser-induced periodic structures: Mechanisms, techniques, and applications

Y Zhang, Q Jiang, M Long, R Han, K Cao… - Opto-Electronic …, 2022 - researching.cn
Over the past two decades, femtosecond laser-induced periodic structures (femtosecond-
LIPSs) have become ubiquitous in a variety of materials, including metals, semiconductors …

Superhydrophobic shape memory polymer arrays with switchable isotropic/anisotropic wetting

Z Cheng, D Zhang, T Lv, H Lai, E Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Smart surfaces with tunable wettability have aroused much attention in the past few years.
However, to obtain a surface that can reversibly transit between the lotus‐leaf‐like …

Smart surfaces with reversibly switchable wettability: concepts, synthesis and applications

H Liu, L Zhang, J Huang, J Mao, Z Chen, Q Mao… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a growing hot research topic, manufacturing smart switchable surfaces has attracted
much attention in the past a few years. The state-of-the-art study on reversibly switchable …