Liquid‐Like Surfaces with Enhanced De‐Wettability and Durability: From Structural Designs to Potential Applications

X Cheng, R Zhao, S Wang, J Meng - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid‐like surfaces (LLSs) with dynamic repellency toward various pollutants (eg, bacteria,
oil, and ice), have shown enormous potential in the fields of biology, environment, and …

Carbon materials dedicate to bendable supports for flexible lithium-sulfur batteries

L Chen, Y Yuan, R Orenstein, M Yanilmaz, J He… - Energy Storage …, 2023 - Elsevier
As a new energy storage device, lithium-sulfur battery (LSB) has a sulfur cathode with a
much higher theoretical specific capacity (1675 mAh g− 1) and energy density (2600 Wh kg …

Covalent bonding strategy to enable non-volatile organic cation perovskite for highly stable and efficient solar cells

K Liu, S Rafique, SF Musolino, Z Cai, F Liu, X Li… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
The loss of organic components from perovskites has inevitably triggered a series of
undesirable results, including ion migration, increased defects, and organic vapors, which …

Advances and challenges in slippery covalently-attached liquid surfaces

IJ Gresham, C Neto - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, a new class of slippery, anti-adhesive surfaces known as slippery
covalently-attached liquid surfaces (SCALS) has emerged, characterized by low values of …

[HTML][HTML] Maximizing the wetting resistance of fluorine-free omniphobic membranes for hypersaline wastewater desalination

Y Yang, S Kalam, S Shabanian, K Golovin, X Zhou… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) equipped with omniphobic (non-wetting) membranes has found
a niche in water reclamation from hypersaline industrial wastewater. Here, we examined the …

Durable water-and oil-repellent textiles without long-or short-chain perfluoroalkylated substances

S Shabanian, SK Lahiri, M Soltani, K Golovin - Materials Today Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
For decades, the water and oil repellency of textiles was achieved using long-chain (C n F
2n+ 1, n≥ 7) perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). However, due to their proven …

Facile fabrication of non-fluorine polymer brush/loop surfaces for oil/water separation and self-cleaning applications

J Tan, X Mao, W Hu, H Zeng - Separation and Purification Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a low surface energy material, is widely used in the
preparation of various (super) hydrophobic materials. Nevertheless, the impact of PDMS …

Functionalization of Polydimethylsiloxane with Diazirine-Based Linkers for Covalent Protein Immobilization

J Li, L Bi, SF Musolino, JE Wulff… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecule attachment to solid supports is critical for biomedical devices, such as
biosensors and implants. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is commonly used for these …

[HTML][HTML] Autophobic polydimethylsiloxane nanodroplets enable abrasion-tolerant omniphobic surfaces

B Khatir, P Serles, T Wen, TV Vuong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) brushes showcase unparalleled omniphobic properties,
repelling a diverse spectrum of liquid droplets. However, PDMS brushes exhibit limited …

Super‐Slippery Poly (Dimethylsiloxane) Brush Surfaces: From Fabrication to Practical Application

S Jiao, D Ma, Z Cheng, J Meng - ChemPlusChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Superwetting surfaces with special slippery performances have been the focus of practical
applications and basic research for decades. Compared to superhydrophobic …