Durable and flexible superhydrophobic materials: abrasion/scratching/slicing/droplet impacting/bending/twisting-tolerant composite with porcupinefish-like structure

Y Yamauchi, M Tenjimbayashi… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Superhydrophobic materials with micro/nanotextured surface have attracted tremendous
attention owing to their potential applications such as self-cleaning, antifouling, anti-icing …

Simple, effective, and ecofriendly strategy to inhibit droplet bouncing on hydrophobic weed leaves

Y Ma, Y Gao, K Zhao, H Zhang, Z Li… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite small-molecule surfactants and polymers being widely used as pesticide adjuvants
to inhibit droplet bouncing and splashing, they still have intrinsic drawbacks either in the …

Contact time on curved superhydrophobic surfaces

J Han, W Kim, C Bae, D Lee, S Shin, Y Nam, C Lee - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
When a water drop im**es on a flat superhydrophobic surface, it bounces off the surface
after a certain dwelling time, which is determined by the Rayleigh inertial-capillary timescale …

Nonwet kingfisher flying in the rain: The tumble of droplets on moving oriented anisotropic superhydrophobic substrates

Y Zheng, C Zhang, J Wang, L Yang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Extensive studies of antiwetting have been restricted to stationary substrates, while
dewetting mechanisms on moving interfaces are still poorly understood. Due to the …

Evaporation characteristics of water droplets in Cassie, Wenzel, and mixed states on superhydrophobic pillared Si surface

J Lee, SH Hwang, SS Yoon, DY Khang - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2019 - Elsevier
Evaporation characteristics of various droplets on superhydrophobized Si micro-pillar (SiμP)
substrate have been investigated experimentally. Especially, the unique characteristics of …

Application of Surface Wettability to Control Spreading of an Impacting Droplet

Y Hu, J Ou, A Amirfazli - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
While the simplest outcome of a normal impact on a flat stationary solid surface is radially
symmetric spreading, it is important to note that asymmetric spreading can intrinsically occur …

Theoretical and experimental studies on the controllable pancake bouncing behavior of droplets

H Wu, K Jiang, Z Xu, S Yu, X Peng, Z Zhang, H Bai… - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
A droplet that impacts on a superhydrophobic surface will undergo a process of unfolding,
contracting, and finally rebounding from the surface. With regards to the pancake bouncing …

Water penetration dynamics through a Janus mesh during drop impact

C Bae, S Oh, J Han, Y Nam, C Lee - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Here, we study the water penetration dynamics through a Janus membrane with opposite
wettability, ie,(super-) hydrophobic on one side and (super-) hydrophilic on the other side …

Retraction dynamics of a water droplet impacting onto a microgrooved hydrophobic surface at different velocities and surface temperatures

YL Fan, Z Zhan, C Guo, JH Kim, J Lee - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
A grooved hydrophobic structure is one of the most commonly adopted surface structures
inspired by nature, such as rice leaves and butterfly wings, to achieve anisotropic …

Water-in-oil emulsion drop-wall impact: Effect of viscosity and water particles on slip length over an oleophilic surface

M Piskunov, C Piskunova - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The study is focused on the numerical simulation of the boundary slip of a water-in-oil (W/O)
emulsion along an oleophilic surface in a 2D axisymmetric formulation of the Navier–Stokes …