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Drop Friction and Failure on Superhydrophobic and Slippery Surfaces

ACS Nano
The mobility of drops on a surface influences how much water and energy is required to clean the surface. By controlling drop mobility, it is possible to promote or reduce fogging, icing, and fouling. Superhydrophobic and slippery liquid-infused surfaces both display high drop mobility despite being 'lubricated' by fluids having very different ...
Abhinav Naga, Liam R. J. Scarratt, Chiara Neto, Periklis Papadopoulos, Doris Vollmer   +4 more
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Indolo‐Fused MR‐TADF Materials and their Application in Organelle‐Targeted Bioimaging

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Using indolo‐fusion and sulfur bridging, four multi‐resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescent (MR‐TADF) materials are reported based on the quinolino[3,2,1‐de]acridine‐5,9‐dione (QAO) framework. Functionalization of these dyes with phosphonium groups enables cellular imaging with mitochondrial targeting in glassy organic nanoparticles ...
Sushil Sharma, Xujun Qiu, Thomas Kalab, Athan T. Gogoulis, Brian O. Patrick, Zachary M. Hudson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Versatile Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators Enabled by Fiber‐Polymer Composite Fabrication

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work reports composite Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators with embedded Kevlar fibers that convert pneumatic or hydraulic pressure into powerful linear motion. A novel precise manufacturing technique is used to systematically explore how design variables influence actuator mechanics and dynamics.
William J. Townsend, Jeongmin Kim, Samuel Tsai, Yichao Shi, Sameh Tawfick, James H. Pikul   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

On‐Demand, Contact‐Less and Loss‐Less Droplet Manipulation via Contact Electrification

Advanced Science
While there are many droplet manipulation techniques, all of them suffer from at least one of the following drawbacks – complex fabrication or complex equipment or liquid loss. In this work, a simple and portable technique is demonstrated that enables on‐
Wei Wang, Hamed Vahabi, Arsalan Taassob, Sreekiran Pillai, Arun Kumar Kota   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Slippery liquid-infused surface with micro/nano hierarchical structures: Highly efficient fog harvesting

Friction
The lack of freshwater resources is a global problem. Fast and efficient water capture from fog is a good solution for many organisms living in arid regions.
Shiping He, Ye Fu, Wenhao Zhang, Zhiguang Guo, Weimin Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advancements in Hypersaline Wastewater Treatment: The Promise of Quasi‐Liquid Surfaces to Reduce Salt Scaling

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Durable quasi‐liquid polymer brush surfaces provide an anti‐scaling strategy for hypersaline brine evaporation and zero‐liquid‐discharge desalination. The smooth, liquid‐like QLS interface suppresses substrate‐side salt nucleation, promotes compact crystallization and dewetting, reduces crystal–surface contact area, and enables low‐adhesion salt ...
Mohammed Imran Khan, Bei Fan
wiley   +1 more source

Multifunctional shape-memory smart window based on femtosecond-laser-printed photothermal microwalls

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
Smart windows (SWs) garner significant potential in green buildings owing to their capability of on-demand tuning the solar gains. Apart from solar regulation, people always desire a type of slippery SW which can repel the surface hydrous contaminants ...
Chao Chen, Sijia Guo, Long Zhang, Hao Yao, Bingrui Liu, Chenchu Zhang, Yachao Zhang, Zhaoxin Lao, Sizhu Wu, Dong Wu   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Glass catfish inspired subaquatic abrasion-resistant anti-fouling window fabricated by femtosecond laser electrodeposition

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
Transparent materials utilized as underwater optical windows are highly vulnerable to various forms of pollution or abrasion due to their intrinsic hydrophilic properties.
Jialiang Zhang, Fangzheng Ren, Qing Yang, Qingyun Ma, Jie Liang, Yizhao Meng, Xiaodan Gou, Chongxiao Xia, Feng Chen   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source