Understanding and utilizing droplet impact on superhydrophobic surfaces: phenomena, mechanisms, regulations, applications, and beyond

Z Hu, F Chu, H Shan, X Wu, Z Dong… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet impact is a ubiquitous liquid behavior that closely tied to human life and production,
making indispensable impacts on the big world. Nature‐inspired superhydrophobic surfaces …

Advanced anti‐icing strategies and technologies by macrostructured photothermal storage superhydrophobic surfaces

F Chu, Z Hu, Y Feng, NC Lai, X Wu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water is the source of life and civilization, but water icing causes catastrophic damage to
human life and diverse industrial processes. Currently, superhydrophobic surfaces (inspired …

Ultrasonic tweezer for multifunctional droplet manipulation

Z Yuan, C Lu, C Liu, X Bai, L Zhao, S Feng, Y Liu - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Spatiotemporally controllable droplet manipulation is essential in diverse applications,
ranging from thermal management to microfluidics and water harvesting. Despite …

Surface behaviors of droplet manipulation in microfluidics devices

L Wu, Z Guo, W Liu - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, the rapid development of microfluidic technology has caused a revolutionary
impact in the fields of chemistry, medicine, and life sciences. Also, droplet control is one of …

Drop impact dynamics on solid surfaces

W Fang, K Zhang, Q Jiang, C Lv, C Sun, Q Li… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Drop impact on solid surfaces widely occurs both in nature and engineering. In this
Perspective, we review the recent advances in experimental, theoretical, and numerical …

Droplet impact dynamics on superhydrophobic surfaces with convex hemispherical shapes

L ** of sessile droplets on microstructured surfaces
W Huang, L Zhao, X He, Y Li, CP Collier, Z Zheng… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The Leidenfrost effect—the levitation and hovering of liquid droplets on hot solid surfaces—
generally requires a sufficiently high substrate temperature to activate liquid vaporization …

Machine-assisted quantification of droplet boiling upon multiple solid materials

JX Wang, B Cui, C Salmean, X Chen, X Yan, Y Mao… - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The intricate nature of droplet wetting and boiling on heated nano-/micro-structured surfaces
has significant implications for practical applications. However, the multitude of factors …

Self-induced interface enhanced moisture-harvesting and light-trap** toward high performance electric power generation

J Bai, Q Liao, H Yao, T Guang, T He… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Ubiquitous moisture and sunlight are widely available in nature and provide abundant,
clean sources for develo** new types of sustainable power. Inspired by liquid migration …

Bidirectional transport of split droplets

Z Hu, F Chu, X Wu, S Ding, Y Lin - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
Simple and smart directional transport of impacting droplets is of great significance for future
life and industry, but there are still many challenges due to complex hydrodynamics. Inspired …