Journal ArticleACS omega · January 2024
During urethral catheterization, sliding friction can cause discomfort and even hemorrhaging. In this report, we use a lubricant-impregnated polydimethylsiloxane coating to reduce the sliding friction of a catheter. Using a pig urethra attached to a microf ...
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Journal ArticleLangmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · August 2023
During COVID-19, personal protective equipment such as face masks was in urgent demand in the daily life. As the pandemic may have withdrawn from public attention, the disposal of face masks is a significant issue, especially plastic pollution. To address ...
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Journal ArticleScience Advances · June 23, 2023
The circulating flu viruses merging with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic raises a more severe threat that promotes the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 associated with higher mortality rates. Here, we conjugated recombinant receptor binding domain (RBD) of ...
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Journal ArticleLangmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · July 2022
The anisotropic adhesion behavior of the gecko is closely related to their feet and is comprised of keratinous hairs, setae, where van der Waals forces permit attachment and detachment during locomotion. Previous research either achieved only isotropic adh ...
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Journal ArticleSustainability (Switzerland) · May 1, 2022
Water is essential for life. However, water scarcity is becoming one of the most severe issues worldwide in terms of its potential impacts. There are diverse forms of water on earth and water harvesting from them is quite feasible to access more fresh wate ...
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Journal ArticleApplied Physics Letters · June 21, 2021
Solar steam generation from a porous evaporator is a promising approach for harvesting fresh water. Parasitic heat loss can be reduced by using a 3D evaporator that extends above the free surface; however, capillary rise constrains the height of su ...
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Journal ArticleAdvanced Sustainable Systems · June 2020
AbstractFog harvesting is useful for passively collecting fresh water in arid regions, but the efficiency of current mesh‐based harvesters is compromised by their poor drainage. Inspired by the linear needles of redwood tre ...
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Journal ArticleScientific Reports · January 14, 2020
AbstractThe transpiration cycle in trees is powered by a negative water potential generated within the leaves, which pumps water up a dense array of xylem conduits. Synthetic trees can mimic this transpiration cycle, but ha ...
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Journal ArticleAdvanced Materials Interfaces · December 2015
Anti‐icing abilities are achieved on surfaces of micropillar arrays with nanohairs that are fabricated by methods of soft replication and crystal growth, i.e., different micropillar arrays with the similar nanohairs, different nanohairs with the sa ...
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Journal ArticleScientific Reports · June 10, 2015
AbstractDirectional control of droplets on a surface is an important issue for tasks of long-range liquid-transport, self-cleaning and water repellency. However, it is still challenging to control the structure m ...
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Journal ArticleAdvanced Materials Interfaces · June 2015
Directional driving of a droplet can be achieved on a gradient‐exhibiting, nanostructured microhump (GNMH) surface at low temperature and high humidity. The GNMH surface is fabricated using a commercial carbon fiber plate with an array of microscal ...
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