Hierarchical Engineering of Sorption‐Based Atmospheric Water Harvesters

Y Song, M Zeng, X Wang, P Shi, M Fei… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Harvesting water from air in sorption‐based devices is a promising solution to decentralized
water production, aiming for providing potable water anywhere, anytime. This technology …

Bioinspired special wettability surfaces: from fundamental research to water harvesting applications

S Zhang, J Huang, Z Chen, Y Lai - Small, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, the pollution of water has become worse in many parts of the world, which
causes a severe shortage of clean water and attracts widespread attention worldwide …

Chemical fabrication strategies for achieving bioinspired superhydrophobic surfaces with micro and nanostructures: A review

S Xu, Q Wang, N Wang - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biological surfaces in nature, such as lotus leaves, rose petals, and water striders, exhibit
excellent superhydrophobicity. The fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces inspired by …

Spontaneous droplets gyrating via asymmetric self-splitting on heterogeneous surfaces

H Li, W Fang, Y Li, Q Yang, M Li, Q Li, XQ Feng… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Droplet impacting and bouncing off solid surface plays a vital role in various biological/
physiological processes and engineering applications. However, due to a lack of accurate …

Roles of silanes and silicones in forming superhydrophobic and superoleophobic materials

L Li, B Li, J Dong, J Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by the self-cleaning and water-repellent properties of plants and animals in the
natural world, superhydrophobic and superoleophobic materials develop quickly, and are of …

Wettability patterning for high-rate, pumpless fluid transport on open, non-planar microfluidic platforms

A Ghosh, R Ganguly, TM Schutzius, CM Megaridis - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface tension driven transport of liquids on open substrates offers an enabling tool for
open micro total analysis systems that are becoming increasingly popular for low-cost …

Spatially and temporally controlled hydrogels for tissue engineering

J Leijten, J Seo, K Yue, G Trujillo-de Santiago… - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen tremendous advances in the field of hydrogel-based biomaterials.
One of the most prominent revolutions in this field has been the integration of elements or …

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 …

Managing water on heat transfer surfaces: A critical review of techniques to modify surface wettability for applications with condensation or evaporation

M Edalatpour, L Liu, AM Jacobi, KF Eid, AD Sommers - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Most materials of practical interest are neither completely wetting nor completely non-
wetting.“Surface wettability” then refers to the degree that a surface is hydrophilic (ie water …

A twice electrochemical-etching method to fabricate superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic patterns for biomimetic fog harvest

X Yang, J Song, J Liu, X Liu, Z ** - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic patterned surfaces have attracted more and more
attention due to their great potential applications in the fog harvest process. In this work, we …