Nature-inspired adhesive systems

M Li, A Mao, Q Guan, E Saiz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Many organisms in nature thrive in intricate habitats through their unique bio-adhesive
surfaces, facilitating tasks such as capturing prey and reproduction. It's important to note that …

Mimicking nature to control bio-material surface wetting and adhesion

M Li, C Li, BRK Blackman… - International Materials …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Nature has developed unique strategies to refine and optimise structural performance.
Using surfaces designed at multiple length scales, from micro to nano levels, combined with …

Multifunctional superhydrophobic surface with dynamically controllable micro/nanostructures for droplet manipulation and friction control

H Wang, Z Zhang, J Zheng, J Zhao, Y Liang, X Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Superhydrophobic surfaces with structure-dependent switchable wettability have recently
drawn considerable attention due to their special applications in droplet manipulation …

Biomimetic superhydrophobic metal/nonmetal surface manufactured by etching methods: A mini review

S Ge-Zhang, H Yang, H Ni, H Mu… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As an emerging fringe science, bionics integrates the understanding of nature, imitation of
nature, and surpassing nature in one aspect, and it organically combines the synergistic …

Biology and nature: Bionic superhydrophobic surface and principle

S Ge-Zhang, T Cai, H Yang, Y Ding… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Nature is the source of human design inspiration. In order to adapt to the environment better,
creatures in nature have formed various morphological structures during billions of years of …

Bioinspired interfacial engineering of multiscale micro/nano-structured surfaces with robust superhydrophobic and tunable adhesion

M He, J Yang, M Gu, Y Wu, K Chen, Y Sun… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Creating superhydrophobic surfaces with varying liquid–solid adhesion holds significant
applications in waterproofing, lab-on-chip, and self-cleaning. Biological superwetting …

Dynamically adjustable wet ridge for directional liquid movement and controllable coating distribution

Q Zhang, N Zhang, K Li, Y Li, X Zhang, Y Du… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Controllable wettability on the surface is widely used in architecture coating, energy transfer,
microfluidics, etc. Much progress has been focused on liquid wetting state transition of the …

Magneto-responsive wettability-switchable surfaces for in-situ large distance droplets capturing-releasing-bouncing

K Wang, AN Bakhtiyari, Y Wu, M Liu, H Zheng - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, superhydrophobic magnetically responsive micro-plate arrays (SMMAs) with
reverse switching wettability were studied for in-situ capturing, releasing, and directional …

Droplet impact dynamics on biomimetic replica of yellow rose petals: Rebound to micropinning transition

S Bandyopadhyay, A Shristi, V Kumawat, A Gope… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rose petals exhibit a phenomenal wetting property of being sticky and superhydrophobic
simultaneously. A recent study has shown that for short timescales, associated with drop …

Direct observation of wetting behavior of water drops on single micro-scale roughness surfaces of rose petal effect

HP Lin, LJ Chen - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Hypothesis: It has been verified that a surface of single micro-scale structures with certain
roughness could exhibit petal effect. That is, water drops with a contact angle larger than …