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Super pressure-resistant superhydrophobic fabrics with real self-cleaning performance
iScience, 2022 Summary: Detergents are extensively used for laundry, causing significant negative impacts on water bodies, plants and animals. Superhydrophobic fabrics are promising to reduce detergent consumption but suffer from low pressure resistance.
Ning Tian +4 more
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Experimental studies of liquid marbles and superhydrophobic surfaces [PDF]
, 2009 The interaction of water droplets with hydrophobic or rough, superhydrophobic solid surfaces has been studied. Such surfaces may be found in the natural world and their potential applications range from waterproof and self-cleaning surfaces to droplet ...
Elliott, SJ
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie +13 more
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Progress in Non-Traditional Processing for Fabricating Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Micromachines, 2021 When the water droplets are on some superhydrophobic surfaces, the surface only needs to be inclined at a very small angle to make the water droplets roll off.
Dili Shen +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
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Superhydrophobic surfaces and their potential application to hydrodynamic drag reduction
, 2014 Superhydrophobic surfaces appear frequently in the natural world, for example allowing insects to respire underwater and plants, such as the lotus leaf, to have self-cleaning properties.
Gruncell, Brian
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Superhydrophobic Films of Uv-Curable Fluorinated Epoxy Acrylate Resins
, 2011 Photopolymerization processes are often used in industrial applications because of their solvent-free formulations and various advantages over conventional thermal processes.
LIN, YUNG-HSIN;HUANG, CHIH-KAI;CHOU, NAI-KUAN;WANG, SHOEI-SHEN;CHU, SHU-HSUN;HSIEH, KUO-HUANG +1 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao +3 more
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Superhydrophobic coating constructed from rosin acid and TiO2 used as blood repellent dressing
Materials & Design, 2022 Blood repellent dressings plays an important role in trauma medicine. However, such dressings have poor hemostatic efficacy, and can cause infection, rendering them unsatisfactory for clinical application.
Yingxuan Wang +5 more
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