Spontaneous directional transportations of water droplets on surfaces driven by gradient structures-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Spontaneous directional transportations of water droplets on surfaces driven by gradient structures

Published:2018 Issue:29 Volume:10 Page:13814-13831
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Li Jian¹²³⁴⁵,Guo Zhiguang¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials

2. Hubei University

3. Wuhan 430062

4. People's Republic of China

5. State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication

Abstract

Surfaces with gradient structures supply actuation for water droplets to attain spontaneous directional transportation. In this review, three typical gradient structures (wedge corners with an opening angle gradient, wedge-shaped surfaces, conical substrates) have been summarized based on recent studies. The detailed process of this spontaneous directional transportation and its influence factors and applications are also discussed in the following sections.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/NR/C8NR04354J

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