Wetting ridges on slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces

HH Tran, D Lee, D Riassetto - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) show remarkable liquid repellency, making
them useful for many coating applications. The outstanding repellency of SLIPS comes from …

Recent advances in microfluidics by tuning wetting behaviors

Q Zeng, B Wang, Z Guo - Materials Today Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
Wettability and microfluidics are inextricably linked, and the wettability-based approach to
microfluidics exhibits considerable potential. In addition to microfluidics, there has been a …

Sustainable superhydrophobic surface with tunable nanoscale hydrophilicity for water harvesting applications

Y Wang, W Zhao, M Han, L Guan, L Han… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Superwettable surfaces show great potential in water harvesting applications, however, a
scalable water harvesting surface remains elusive due to the trade‐off between water …

Quasi-liquid surfaces for sustainable high-performance steam condensation

D Monga, Z Guo, L Shan, SA Taba… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sustainable high-performance steam condensation is critical to reducing the size, weight,
and cost of water and energy systems. It is well-known that dropwise condensation can …

Coarsening‐induced disappearing droplets contribute to condensation

Z Guo, D Monga, L Shan, D Boylan, X Dai - Droplet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Condensation heat transfer is widely used in water and energy systems. Despite being
extensively studied, since 1973, the models for dropwise condensation have strongly relied …

Hydrophilic reentrant SLIPS enabled flow separation for rapid water harvesting

Z Guo, D Boylan, L Shan, X Dai - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Water harvesting from air is desired for decentralized water supply wherever water is
needed. When water vapor is condensed as droplets on a surface the unremoved droplets …

Efficient anti-frosting on discrete nanoclusters via spatiotemporal control of condensation frosting dynamics

S Yang, Y Ying, W Li, Y Feng, R Wen, Q Li, Y Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tailoring the condensation frosting dynamics, particularly by surface topological designs,
holds great promise to mitigate the frost accretion yet has proven challenging due to the …

Microscale confinement and wetting contrast enable enhanced and tunable condensation

X Yan, F Chen, C Zhao, X Wang, L Li, S Khodakarami… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Dropwise condensation represents the upper limit of thermal transport efficiency for liquid-to-
vapor phase transition. A century of research has focused on promoting dropwise …

Visualizing and understanding corrosion evolution beneath a condensed droplet using the multi-electrode array

M Wang, X Zhao, S Gao, Y Zhu, Y Zheng… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamic corrosion process under the condensed liquid droplet was studied using both
wire beam electrode (WBE) and steel coupon. Results indicate that the formation process …

A regulation strategy of sorbent stepwise position for boosting atmospheric water harvesting in arid area

Y Feng, T Ge, B Chen, G Zhan, R Wang - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021 - cell.com
Numerous studies have focused on tailoring materials for sorption-based atmospheric water
harvesting (AWH) in arid climates, but both the design and modification of materials are a …