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What do we really know about the water repellency of feathers?

Journal of Avian Biology
Feathers are complex integument structures that provide birds with many functions. They are vital to a bird's survival, fundamental to their visual displays, and responsible for the evolutionary radiation of the avian class. Feathers provide a protective
Frank M. S. Muzio, Margaret A. Rubega
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Underground Signals: The Ecological Power of Root Volatiles

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Root volatiles mediate rhizosphere chemical communication, shaping interactions among plants, microbes, herbivores, and natural enemies. Their production, transport, and perception underpin ecological adaptation, multitrophic interactions, and plant resilience, offering opportunities for sustainable crop protection, resilient agroecosystems, and ...
Xueyao Cao, Nanli Song, François Verheggen, Meritxell Pérez‐Hedo, Andrea Clavijo McCormick, Antonino Cusumano, Arthur de Fouchier, Bing Wang, Chen‐Zhu Wang, Emmanuelle Jacquin‐Joly, Gary W. Felton, Geoff M. Gurr, Hao Guo, Jiancai Li, Jin Zhang, Li Chen, Manqun Wang, Michele Ricupero, Peng Han, Peng He, Qi Yan, Qingbo Tang, Qingsong Liu, Shiheng An, Xiangbo Kong, Xiaoling Sun, Xueming Ren, Yuanyuan Song, Yang Liu, Yanhui Guo, Yunhe Li, Xiao Sun   +31 more
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Designing bioinspired superoleophobic surfaces

APL Materials, 2016
Nature provides a range of functional surfaces, for example, water-repellent or superhydrophobic surfaces, most common among them the lotus leaf. While water-repellency is widespread in nature, oil-repellency is typically limited to surfaces submerged in
Philip S. Brown, Bharat Bhushan
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Effect of Biochar Application on Physicochemical and Hydraulic Properties of Loess

Advances in Civil Engineering, 2020
Biochar is important for optimizing soil physical structure and improving soil water retention. The saturated water capacity test, water repellency test, and permeability coefficient test were used to study the effects of biochar additive amount (0, 2, 5,
Xiujuan Yang, Henghui Fan, Yuhang Du, Lu Zhang   +3 more
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Drop‐Location‐Insensitive Droplet‐Based Electricity Generator Using Polydimethylsiloxane Slippery Covalently Attached Liquid Coatings

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Drop‐location sensitivity remains a key barrier to practical droplet‐based electricity generators (DEGs). Here, a polydimethylsiloxane slippery covalently attached liquid (PDMS‐SCAL)‐coated interface promotes droplet sliding instead of splitting or bouncing, allowing stable electricity generation from randomly falling raindrops. The resulting PDMS‐SCAL‐
Jung Bin Yang, Donghyeon Yoo, Hideaki Teshima, Donghan Lee, Dongwhi Choi, Dong Rip Kim, Nenad Miljkovic   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of a highly dispersed chalk additive for the production of concrete for transport structures

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
The concretes used for transport infrastructure facilities are exposed to the active impact of corrosive environment; therefore, such concretes face raised demands as for water repellency, frost resistance and corrosion resistance.
Borziak Olga, Chepurna Svitlana, Zidkova Tatyana, Zhyhlo Anna, Ismagilov Andrii   +4 more
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Development of a universal microinfiltrometer to estimate extent and persistence of soil water repellency as a function of capillary pressure and interface chemical composition

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2020
Microinfiltrometers to assess soil water repellency (SWR) are limited to small tension ranges and have different technical setups, hindering a comparison between results from different laboratories.
Sepehrnia Nasrollah, Woche Susanne K., Goebel Marc-O., Bachmann Jörg   +3 more
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Herbivory‐Induced Stomatal Opening Triggers the Dispersal of an Invasive Insect Herbivore

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The invasive leafminer Phthorimaea absoluta uniquely manipulates plant defenses by inducing stomatal opening in tomato. This response, mediated by the stomatal regulator IQM1, enhances the release of the repellent volatile benzaldehyde. This volatile triggers the dispersal of adult moths, facilitates colonization of new hosts, and leads to rapid ...
Limin Chen, Xiaowei Li, Yaru Wang, Farman Ullah, Shuxing Zhou, Lemeng Dong, Weizhong He, Harro J. Bouwmeester, Youming Hou, Ian T. Baldwin, Yaobin Lu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self-organization of hydrophobic soil and granular surfaces [PDF]

, 2007
Soil can become extremely water repellent following forest fires or oil spillages, thus preventing penetration of water and increasing runoff and soil erosion. Here the authors show that evaporation of a droplet from the surface of a hydrophobic granular
Pyatt, F. Brian, Stefan Doerr, McHale, Glen, Stefan H. Doerr, Doerr, Stefan, Michael I. Newton, Newton, Michael, Neil J. Shirtcliffe, Glen McHale, Shirtcliffe, Neil, F. Brian Pyatt   +10 more
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Autonomous AI‐Driven Design for Skin Product Formulations

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This review presents a comprehensive closed‐loop framework for autonomous skin product formulation design. By integrating artificial intelligence‐driven experiment selection with automated multi‐tiered assays, the approach shifts development from trial‐and‐error to intelligent optimisation.
Yu Zhang, Yongrui Xiao, Chunlin Chen, Dimitrios Tsaoulidis, Kai Yang, Tao Chen   +5 more
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