Nature-inspired adhesive systems

M Li, A Mao, Q Guan, E Saiz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Many organisms in nature thrive in intricate habitats through their unique bio-adhesive
surfaces, facilitating tasks such as capturing prey and reproduction. It's important to note that …

Recent progress in understanding the anti-icing behavior of materials

LB Boinovich, AM Emelyanenko - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the significant progress in fundamental research in the physics of atmospheric icing
or the revolutionary changes in modern materials and coatings achieved due to the recent …

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 …

Spontaneous dewetting transitions of droplets during icing & melting cycle

L Wang, Z Tian, G Jiang, X Luo, C Chen, X Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-icing superhydrophobic surfaces have been a key research topic due to their potential
application value in aviation, telecommunication, energy, etc. However, superhydrophobicity …

Superhydrophobic materials used for anti-icing Theory, application, and development

H He, Z Guo - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
The accumulation of ice will reduce the performance of the base material and lead to all
kinds of damage, even a threat to people's life safety. Recent increasing studies suggest that …

Condensation droplet sieve

C Ma, L Chen, L Wang, W Tong, C Chu, Z Yuan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Large droplets emerging during dropwise condensation impair surface properties such as
anti-fogging/frosting ability and heat transfer efficiency. How to spontaneously detach …

Particulate–droplet coalescence and self-transport on superhydrophobic surfaces

X Yan, B Ji, L Feng, X Wang, D Yang, KF Rabbi… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Particulate transport from surfaces governs a variety of phenomena including fungal spore
dispersal, bioaerosol transmission, and self-cleaning. Here, we report a previously …

Dropwise condensation: From fundamentals of wetting, nucleation, and droplet mobility to performance improvement by advanced functional surfaces

SF Zheng, U Gross, XD Wang - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
As a ubiquitous vapor-liquid phase-change process, dropwise condensation has attracted
tremendous research attention owing to its remarkable efficiency of energy transfer and …

Lossless and directional transport of droplets on multi‐bioinspired superwetting V‐shape rails

X Zhang, S Ben, Z Zhao, Y Ning, Q Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Lossless and directional droplet transport is desirable in biological processes as well as in
technical applications such as targeted drug therapies, bioassays, and microfluidics …