Understanding and utilizing droplet impact on superhydrophobic surfaces: phenomena, mechanisms, regulations, applications, and beyond

Z Hu, F Chu, H Shan, X Wu, Z Dong… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet impact is a ubiquitous liquid behavior that closely tied to human life and production,
making indispensable impacts on the big world. Nature‐inspired superhydrophobic surfaces …

Recent advancements in photothermal anti-icing/deicing materials

Y Wu, L Dong, X Shu, Y Yang, P Feng, Q Ran - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The formation and accumulation of ice on various exposed surfaces are common and
unavoidable phenomena, which have detrimental effects on industrial production and daily …

Advanced anti‐icing strategies and technologies by macrostructured photothermal storage superhydrophobic surfaces

F Chu, Z Hu, Y Feng, NC Lai, X Wu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water is the source of life and civilization, but water icing causes catastrophic damage to
human life and diverse industrial processes. Currently, superhydrophobic surfaces (inspired …

Regulation of droplet impacting on superhydrophobic surfaces: Coupled effects of macrostructures, wettability patterns, and surface motion

F Chu, S Li, Z Hu, X Wu - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Superhydrophobic surfaces have shown great application prospects due to their excellent
water repellency in many applications involving fluid–surface interactions. As a ubiquitous …

Dynamics and maximum spreading of droplet impact on a stationary droplet on the surface

Y Li, X Wu, Y Lin, Z Hu - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
In numerous applications related to droplet impact, impacting droplets often interact with
solid surfaces with adhesive droplets rather than dry surfaces, but the former is significantly …

Double-peak characteristic of droplet impact force on superhydrophobic surfaces

Z Hu, F Chu, X Wu - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Suffering from poor robustness and durability, superhydrophobic surfaces are usually
difficult to be applied in practical engineering such as aircraft anti-icing and electricity …

Droplet impact dynamics on single-pillar superhydrophobic surfaces

S Ding, Z Hu, L Dai, X Zhang, X Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
While ridged, spherical, or cone superhydrophobic surfaces have been extensively utilized
to explore the droplet impact dynamics and the possibility of reducing contact time …

Design principle of ridge-textured superhydrophobic surfaces for inducing pancake bouncing

Z Hu, F Chu, X Wu - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reducing contact time of droplets impacting on solid surfaces plays an important role in
various applications such as anti-icing and energy harvesting. Pancake bouncing on …

Contact time of droplet impact on inclined ridged superhydrophobic surfaces

Z Hu, F Chu, Y Lin, X Wu - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Superhydrophobic surfaces decorated with macrostructures have attracted extensive
attention due to their excellent performance of reducing the contact time of impacting …