Superwettability of gas bubbles and its application: from bioinspiration to advanced materials

C Yu, P Zhang, J Wang, L Jiang - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Gas bubbles in aqueous media are common and inevitable in, for example, agriculture and
industrial processes. The behaviors of gas bubbles on solid interfaces, including generation …

Recent progress in fabricating superaerophobic and superaerophilic surfaces

JE George, S Chidangil… - Advanced Materials …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of large amount of research in fabricating surfaces of varying wettability by
biomimicking the naturally occurring surfaces, the work on fundamentally and industrially …

Bioinspired pressure-tolerant asymmetric slippery surface for continuous self-transport of gas bubbles in aqueous environment

C Zhang, B Zhang, H Ma, Z Li, X **ao, Y Zhang, X Cui… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Biosurfaces with geometry-gradient structures or special wettabilities demonstrate intriguing
performance in manipulating the behaviors of versatile fluids. By mimicking natural species …

Spontaneous and directional transportation of gas bubbles on superhydrophobic cones

C Yu, M Cao, Z Dong, J Wang, K Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the behavior of gas bubbles in aqueous media and realizing their
spontaneous and directional manipulation are of vital importance in both scientific research …

Measuring forces and spatiotemporal evolution of thin water films between an air bubble and solid surfaces of different hydrophobicity

C Shi, X Cui, L **e, Q Liu, DYC Chan, JN Israelachvili… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A combination of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and reflection interference contrast
microscopy (RICM) was used to measure simultaneously the interaction force and the …

Interaction mechanism of oil-in-water emulsions with asphaltenes determined using droplet probe AFM

C Shi, L Zhang, L **e, X Lu, Q Liu, CA Mantilla… - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
Emulsions with interface-active components at the oil/water interface have long been of
fundamental and practical interest in many fields. In this work, the interaction forces between …

Surface forces and interaction mechanisms of emulsion drops and gas bubbles in complex fluids

L **e, C Shi, X Cui, H Zeng - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
The interactions of emulsion drops and gas bubbles in complex fluids play important roles in
a wide range of biological and technological applications, such as programmable drug and …

Bioinspired slippery cone for controllable manipulation of gas bubbles in low-surface-tension environment

X **ao, C Zhang, H Ma, Y Zhang, G Liu, M Cao, C Yu… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Manipulating bubbles in surfactant solutions or oil mediums is of vital importance in daily life
and industries concerned with cosmetics, food, fermentation, mineral flotation, etc. However …

Directional and continuous transport of gas bubbles on superaerophilic geometry‐gradient surfaces in aqueous environments

H Ma, M Cao, C Zhang, Z Bei, K Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the direct and sufficient contacting with the aqueous environment, the directional and
continuous transport of gas bubbles on open surface without energy input will advance a …

Probing the hydrophobic interaction between air bubbles and partially hydrophobic surfaces using atomic force microscopy

C Shi, DYC Chan, Q Liu, H Zeng - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The hydrophobic interaction plays an essential role in various natural phenomena and
industrial processes. Previous studies on the hydrophobic interaction focused mainly on the …