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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150828135409.htm The lotus effect has inspired many types of liquid repelling surfaces, but tiny water droplets stick to lotus leaf structures. Now, researchers at Penn State have developed the first nano/micro-textured highly slippery surfaces able to outperform lotus leaf-inspired liquid repellent coatings, particularly in situations where the water is in the form of vapor or tiny droplets. Enhancing the mobility of liquid droplets on rough surfaces has applications ranging from condensation heat transfer for heat exchangers in power plants to more efficient water harvesting in arid regions where collecting fog droplets on coated meshes provides drinking water and irrigation for agriculture to the prevention of icing and frosting on aircraft wings. "This represents a fundamentally new concept in engineered surfaces," said Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a faculty member in the Penn State Materials Research Institute. "Our surfaces combine the unique surface architectures of lotus leaves and pitcher plants, in such a way that these surfaces possess both high surface area and a slippery interface to enhance droplet collection and mobility. Mobility of liquid droplets on rough surfaces is highly dependent on how the liquid wets the surface. We have demonstrated for the first time experimentally that liquid droplets can be highly mobile when in the Wenzel state." Liquid droplets on rough surfaces come in one of two states, Cassie, in which the liquid partially floats on a layer of air or gas, and Wenzel, in which the droplets are in full contact with the surface, trapping or pinning them. The Wenzel equation was published in 1936 in one of the most highly cited papers in the field; yet until now, it has been extremely challenging to precisely verify the equation experimentally. "Through careful, systematic analysis, we found that the Wenzel equation does not apply for highly wetting liquids," said Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin, a graduate student in Wong's group and coauthor on a paper titled "Slippery Wenzel State," published in the August 28 online edition of the journal ACS Nano. "Droplets on conventional rough surfaces are mobile in the Cassie state and pinned in the Wenzel state. The sticky Wenzel state results in many problems in condensation heat transfer, water harvesting and ice removal. Our idea is to solve these problems by enabling Wenzel state droplets to be mobile," said Xianming Dai, a postdoctoral scholar in Wong's group and the lead author on the ACS Nano paper. In the last decade, tremendous efforts have been devoted to designing rough surfaces that prevent the Cassie-to-Wenzel wetting transition. A key conceptual advance in the current study is that both Cassie and Wenzel state droplets can retain mobility on the slippery rough surface, foregoing the difficult process of preventing the wetting transition. In order to make Wenzel state droplets mobile, the researchers etched micrometer scale pillars into a silicon surface using photolithography and deep reactive-ion etching, and then created nanoscale textures on the pillars by wet etching. They then infused the nanotextures with a layer of lubricant that completely coated the nanostructures, resulting in greatly reduced pinning of the droplets. The nanostructures also greatly enhanced lubricant retention compared to the microstructured surface alone. The same design principle can be easily extended to other materials beyond silicon, such as metals, glass, ceramics and plastics. The authors believe this work will open the search for a new, unified model of wetting physics that explains wetting phenomena on rough surfaces such as theirs. This research was funded by the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Office of Naval Research (MURI award). The researchers performed their work in the Penn State Nanofabrication Laboratory, part of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), funded by the National Science Foundation. A U.S. provisional patent has been filed for this work. Shikuan Yang, a post-doctoral scholar in Wong's group, also contributed to the work. Story Source: The above post is reprinted from materials provided by Penn State Materials Research Institute. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. Journal Reference: Xianming Dai, Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin, Shikuan Yang, Tak-Sing Wong. Slippery Wenzel State. ACS Nano, 2015; 150828101224001 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04151 [ Last edited by 李加伟 on 2015-9-3 at 14:29 ] |
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应该是全球最有影响力的学术媒体了。 这篇文章还被美国权威的NSF Science360 选为9月1号的 The top story of the day: https://news.science360.gov/obj/story/48f38db4-6316-4e7f-b77b-1441c129ea7c/engineered-surface-unsticks-sticky-water-droplets 还被其它一些权威学术媒体报道，如： Phys.Org: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-surface-unsticks-sticky-droplets.html R&D Magzine: https://www.rdmag.com/news/2015/08/engineered-surface-unsticks-sticky-water-droplets Penn State News: https://news.psu.edu/story/367640/2015/08/31/research/engineered-surface-unsticks-sticky-water-droplets Futurity: https://www.futurity.org/hydrophobic-surface-993712-2/ Nanowerk: https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=41172.php ChemEurope: https://www.chemeurope.com/en/news/154358.html Iran Daily: https://newspaper.iran-daily.com/Newspaper/Page/5154/8 |
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