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A droplet‐based electricity generator with ultrahigh instantaneous output and short charging time
Droplet, 2022 The past several years have witnessed the rapid development in effectively transforming randomly distributed water kinetic energy into electrical energy, especially triggered by the emergence of droplet‐based electricity generators (DEG).
Nan Zhang +8 more
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Slippery quartz surfaces for anti‐fouling optical windows
Droplet, 2023 The surface of camera‐based medical devices is easily smeared by blood and fog during the surgical procedure, causing visual field loss and bringing great distress to both doctors and patients.
Minjing Li +7 more
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Droplet, 2023 The friction force opposing the onset of motion of a drop on a solid surface is typically considered to be a material property for a fixed drop volume on a given surface.
Alexandre Laroche +10 more
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Sustainable dropwise condensation enabled ultraefficient heat pipes
Droplet, 2023 Heat pipes play a critical role in determining the operations, safety, and energy efficiency of electronics. The main focus to improve the heat pipe performance is on the evaporator design or wicking structures.
Wei Chang +4 more
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Droplet, 2023 Electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) and dielectrowetting (DEW) are two major principles to drive droplets in digital microfluidics. EWOD is effective to manipulate (create, transport, split, and merge) conductive droplets being currently used for many ...
Hongyao Geng, Sung Kwon Cho
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Droplet orthogonal impact on nonuniform wettability surfaces
Droplet, 2023 The vast majority of prior studies on droplet impact have focused on collisions of liquid droplets with spatially homogeneous (i.e., uniform‐wettability) surfaces.
Shashwata Moitra +6 more
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Janus liquid marbles: Fabrication techniques, recent developments, and applications
Droplet, 2023 Liquid marbles (LMs) are nonsticky droplets stabilized by hydrophobic solid particles that are adsorbed at the liquid–air interface. LMs are emerging as a potential platform in digital microfluidics, sensing applications, storage unit, biological ...
Bindhu Sunilkumar Lekshmi +1 more
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Regulating droplet impact symmetry by surface engineering
Droplet, 2023 Droplet impact on solid surfaces is essential both in nature and industry. Precisely regulating the dynamic behavior of droplet impact is of great significance for energy harvesting, anti‐icing, inkjet printing, pesticide spraying, and many other fields.
Zhipeng Zhao +9 more
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Bionic multifunctional fibrous materials for efficient oil/water separation
Droplet, 2023 Special wettability fibrous materials have received a lot of attention because of their good connectivity, mechanical flexibility, large specific surface area, and ease of shape manipulation.
Yuyan Guo, Zhiguang Guo, Weimin Liu
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Enhanced condensation heat transfer by water/ethanol binary liquids on polydimethylsiloxane brushes
Droplet, 2022 Enhancing heat transfer efficiency by liquid condensation plays a critical role in recovering and utilizing low‐grade heat. However, overall heat transfer efficiency is commonly limited by the inefficient vapor–liquid phase transition flux and enthalpy ...
Shuai Li +5 more
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