Microfluidics-enabled soft manufacture of materials with tailorable wettability

P Zhu, L Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics and wettability are interrelated and mutually reinforcing fields, experiencing
synergistic growth. Surface wettability is paramount in regulating microfluidic flows for …

Superhydrophobic Biological Fluid‐Repellent Surfaces: Mechanisms and Applications

J Luo, H Yu, B Lu, D Wang, X Deng - Small Methods, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Superhydrophobic biological fluid‐repellent surfaces (SBFRSs) have attracted great
attention in the treatment of blood and urine‐related diseases because of their unique …

Hydrophilic reentrant SLIPS enabled flow separation for rapid water harvesting

Z Guo, D Boylan, L Shan, X Dai - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Water harvesting from air is desired for decentralized water supply wherever water is
needed. When water vapor is condensed as droplets on a surface the unremoved droplets …

3D microprinting of super‐repellent microstructures: recent developments, challenges, and opportunities

Z Dong, PA Levkin - Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid super‐repellent surfaces, characterized by a low liquid–solid contact fraction, allow
various liquids to bead up and freely roll off. Apart from liquid repellency, these surfaces …

Compact nanoscale textures reduce contact time of bouncing droplets

L Wang, R Wang, J Wang, TS Wong - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Many natural surfaces are capable of rapidly shedding water droplets—a phenomenon that
has been attributed to the presence of low solid fraction textures (Φs~ 0.01). However …

Re‐entrant microstructures for robust liquid repellent surfaces

HH Vu, NT Nguyen… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Superhydrophobic surfaces have many interesting applications because of their self‐
cleaning, waterproof, anti‐biofouling, anti‐corrosion, and low‐adhesion properties …

Robust liquid repellency by stepwise wetting resistance

J Sun, P Zhu, X Yan, C Zhang, Y Jin, X Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Maintaining both high static liquid repellency and large dynamic pressure resistance is
highly preferred for a myriad of applications, such as energy conversion, anti-icing, and …

Intrusion and extrusion of liquids in highly confining media: Bridging fundamental research to applications

A Le Donne, A Tinti, E Amayuelas… - … in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Wetting and drying of pores or cavities, made by walls that attract or repel the liquid, is a
ubiquitous process in nature and has many technological applications including, for …

Effects of different secondary nano-scaled roughness on the properties of omniphobic membranes for brine treatment using membrane distillation

G Zheng, L Yao, X You, Y Liao, R Wang… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrophobic membranes suffer from wetting and scaling when treating hypersaline brine
using membrane distillation (MD). Thus omniphobic membranes with re-entrant surfaces …

Femtosecond laser regulated ultrafast growth of mushroom-like architecture for oil repellency and manipulation

Y Yang, Y Zhang, Y Hu, G Li, C Zhang, Y Song, L Li… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Natural organisms can create various microstructures via a spontaneous growth mode. In
contrast, artificial protruding microstructures are constructed by subtractive methods that …