Bioinspired engineering of honeycomb structure–Using nature to inspire human innovation

Q Zhang, X Yang, P Li, G Huang, S Feng… - Progress in Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Honeycomb structures, inspired from bee honeycombs, had found widespread applications
in various fields, including architecture, transportation, mechanical engineering, chemical …

Design and preparation of porous polymers

D Wu, F Xu, B Sun, R Fu, H He… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Porosity can be viewed as a profound concept that helps us to understand nature and create
advanced structures. There are some interesting examples in nature, such as hollow …

Breath figure: a nature-inspired preparation method for ordered porous films

A Zhang, H Bai, L Li - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Breath Figure: A Nature-Inspired Preparation Method for Ordered Porous Films | Chemical
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Design and creation of superwetting/antiwetting surfaces

XJ Feng, L Jiang - Advanced Materials, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Recent achievements in the construction of surfaces with special wettabilities, such as
superhydrophobicity, superhydrophilicity, superoleophobicity, superoleophilicity …

Superhydrophobic fabrics produced by electrospinning and chemical vapor deposition

M Ma, Y Mao, M Gupta, KK Gleason… - Macromolecules, 2005 - ACS Publications
A versatile method to produce superhydrophobic fabrics by combining electrospinning and
initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) is reported. In this study, poly …

Bioinspired superwettability micro/nanoarchitectures: fabrications and applications

T Kong, G Luo, Y Zhao, Z Liu - Advanced functional materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biological systems have evolved over billions of years to develop wetting strategies for
advantageous structure–property–performance relations that are crucial for their survival …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and breakthroughs in recent research on self-assembly

K Ariga, JP Hill, MV Lee, A Vinu, R Charvet… - … and technology of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The controlled fabrication of nanometer-scale objects is without doubt one of the central
issues in current science and technology. However, existing fabrication techniques suffer …

Fabrication of polymeric biomaterials: a strategy for tissue engineering and medical devices

F Khan, M Tanaka, SR Ahmad - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymeric biomaterials have a significant impact in today's health care technology. Polymer
hydrogels were the first experimentally designed biomaterials for human use. In this article …

Breath figures as a dynamic templating method for polymers and nanomaterials

UHF Bunz - Advanced Materials, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This review describes the use of breath figures as a templating method for the fabrication of
self‐assembled polymeric‐and nanoparticle‐based micro‐and nanostructures. If moist air is …

Inherently superoleophobic nanocomposite coatings by spray atomization

A Steele, I Bayer, E Loth - Nano letters, 2009 - ACS Publications
We describe a technique to fabricate, for the first time, superoleophobic coatings by spray
casting nanoparticle− polymer suspensions. The method involves the use of ZnO …