Breath figure: a nature-inspired preparation method for ordered porous films

A Zhang, H Bai, L Li - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Breath Figure: A Nature-Inspired Preparation Method for Ordered Porous Films | Chemical
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Controllable printing droplets for high‐resolution patterns

M Kuang, L Wang, Y Song - Advanced materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Inkjet printing has attracted wide attention due to the important applications in fabricating
biological, optical, and electrical devices. During the inkjet printing process, the solutes …

Learning from “coffee rings”: ordered structures enabled by controlled evaporative self‐assembly

W Han, Z Lin - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Research into the evaporation of solutions is not only aimed at a better understanding the
physics of evaporation, but increasingly at capitalizing on the extremely simple method it …

Recent advances in controlling the depositing morphologies of inkjet droplets

J Sun, B Bao, M He, H Zhou, Y Song - ACS applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Inkjet printing has been widely used in functional material patterning for fabrication of
optical/electrical devices. The depositing morphologies of inkjet droplets are critical to the …

Self-assembly of highly ordered micro-and nanoparticle deposits

H Zargartalebi, SH Hejazi, A Sanati-Nezhad - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The evaporation of particle-laden sessile droplets is associated with capillary-driven
outward flow and leaves nonuniform coffee-ring-like particle patterns due to far-from …

Bioinspired Patterning with Extreme Wettability Contrast on TiO2 Nanotube Array Surface: A Versatile Platform for Biomedical Applications

Y Lai, L Lin, F Pan, J Huang, R Song, Y Huang, C Lin… - Small, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Binary wettability patterned surfaces with extremely high wetting contrasts can be found in
nature on living creatures. They offer a versatile platform for microfluidic management. In this …

Ordered patterns and structures via interfacial self-assembly: superlattices, honeycomb structures and coffee rings

H Ma, J Hao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly is now being intensively studied in chemistry, physics, biology, and materials
engineering and has become an important “bottom-up” approach to create intriguing …

Applying droplets and films in evaporative lithography

KS Kolegov, LY Barash - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
This review covers experimental results of evaporative lithography and analyzes existing
mathematical models of this method. Evaporating droplets and films are used in different …

Beyond color: The new carbon ink

P Wang, B Barnes, Z Huang, Z Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For thousands of years, carbon ink has been used as a black color pigment for writing and
painting purposes. However, recent discoveries of nanocarbon materials, including …

Nanoparticle monolayer-based flexible strain gauge with ultrafast dynamic response for acoustic vibration detection

L Yi, W Jiao, K Wu, L Qian, X Yu, Q **a, K Mao, S Yuan… - Nano Research, 2015 - Springer
The relatively poor dynamic response of current flexible strain gauges has prevented their
wide adoption in portable electronics. In this work, we present a greatly improved flexible …