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Electrowetting Using a Microfluidic Kelvin Water Dropper
Micromachines, 2018 The Kelvin water dropper is an electrostatic generator that can generate high voltage electricity through water dripping. A conventional Kelvin water dropper converts the gravitational potential energy of water into electricity.
Elias Yazdanshenas +2 more
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Developing interface localized liquid dielectrophoresis for optical applications [PDF]
, 2012 Electrowetting charges the solid-liquid interface to change the contact area of a droplet of a conducting liquid. It is a powerful technique used to create variable focus liquid lenses, electronic paper and other devices, but it depends upon ions within ...
Michael I. Newton +9 more
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A Novel Hexagonal Beam Steering Electrowetting Device for Solar Energy Concentration
Micromachines, 2020 Traditional tracking devices for solar energy applications have several disadvantages, such as bulky mechanical structure, large wind loads, and ease of misalignment.
Iftekhar Khan +2 more
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Electrochemical Science Advances, 2023 Porous gas‐diffusion electrodes (GDEs) are widely used in electrochemical applications where a gaseous reactant is converted to a target product. Important applications for silver‐based GDEs are the chlor‐alkali and the CO2 electrolysis processes in ...
Fabian Bienen +10 more
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Micromachines, 2015 A quantitative description of the dynamics of droplet motion has been a long-standing concern in electrowetting research. Although many static and dynamic models focusing on droplet motion induced by electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) already exist ...
Weiwei Cui +5 more
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Electrowetting and Surface Tension of Chromonic Liquid Crystals
Crystals, 2023 In this work, we report on measurements of the contact angle of sessile droplets of aqueous solutions of a chromonic liquid crystal at different temperatures and concentrations and on different hydrophobic surfaces, and we show that the wettability of ...
Filippo Marinello +8 more
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Experimental study on the reliability of water/fluoropolymer/ITO contact in electrowetting displays
Results in Physics, 2019 The practicability of using DI water in electrowetting displays with a thick layer of fluoropolymer and the reliability of water/fluoropolymer/indium tin oxide contact was investigated experimentally.
Rui Zhou +5 more
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Evaporative Heat Transfer from an Electrowetted Liquid Ribbon on a Heated Substrate [PDF]
, 2013 Evaporation of narrow water ribbons (of 5 and 7 lL volume) formed on a heated surface is investigated. Chemical and structural patterning of a silicon substrate is employed to fabricate a hydrophilic stripe that bisects hydrophobic pillar arrays of ...
Garimella, Suresh V. +3 more
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Voltage-induced spreading and superspreading of liquids [PDF]
, 2013 The ability to quickly spread a liquid across a surface and form a film is fundamental for a diverse range of technological processes, including printing, painting and spraying.
Sampara, Naresh +2 more
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Fabrication and Actuation of an Electrowetting Droplet Array on a Flexible Substrate
Micromachines, 2017 Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) is a fast, well-established actuation method for a variety of applications, from microfluidics to electrowetting displays to electrowetting lenses. We therefore seek to develop a robust, scalable fabrication method for
Kari L. Van Grinsven +2 more
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