[HTML][HTML] Additive manufacturing of high aspect-ratio structures with self-focusing photopolymerization

M Yang, K Kowsari, NO Myrie… - Light: Advanced …, 2022 - light-am.com
Photocrosslinkable polymers have been exploited to attain impressive advantages in
printing freestanding, micrometer-scale, mechanically compliant features. However, a more …

Underwater superoleophobic surface based on silica hierarchical cylinder arrays with a low aspect ratio

W Liu, S Xiang, X Liu, B Yang - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
A superantiwetting surface based on low-aspect-ratio hierarchical cylinder arrays (HCAs)
was successfully obtained on a silica substrate by colloidal lithography with …

Materials design and discovery: Potential for application to soiling mitigation in photovoltaic systems

PP Brito, ASAC Diniz, LL Kazmerski - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Materials science has been changing. The era of “trial-by-error” development is being
redirected toward revolutionary “materials-by-design” methodologies that guide experiments …

Microfiber optic arrays as top coatings for front-contact solar cells toward mitigation of shading loss

FH Chen, S Biria, H Li, ID Hosein - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Microfiber optic array structures are fabricated and employed as an optical structure
overlaying a front-contact silicon solar cell. The arrays are synthesized through light-induced …

Superhydrophobic Polymer Composite Surfaces Developed via Photopolymerization

S Pathreeker, P Chando, FH Chen, S Biria… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Fabrication of superhydrophobic materials using incumbent techniques involves several
processing steps and is therefore either quite complex, not scalable, or often both. Here, the …

Observation of intensity dependent phase-separation in photoreactive monomer–nanoparticle formulations under non-uniform visible light irradiation

S Pathreeker, FH Chen, S Biria, ID Hosein - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We report observations of photopolymerization driven phase-separation in a mixture of a
photo-reactive monomer and inorganic nanoparticles. The mixture is irradiated with visible …

Fabrication of tapered 3D microstructure arrays using dual-exposure lithography (DEL)

V Rengarajan, J Geng, Y Huang - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Three-dimensional (3D) microstructure arrays (MSAs) have been widely used in material
science and biomedical applications by providing superhydrophobic surfaces, cell …

Light–induced Self–Writing of polymer composites: A novel approach to develop core–shell–type structures

N Wellington, S Pathreeker, ID Hosein - Composites Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract We employ the Light–Induced Self–Writing (LISW) technique to fabricate vertically–
aligned polymer composite microstructures with core–shell morphology. Nanoparticle (NP) …

Light-directed organization of polymer materials from photoreactive formulations

ID Hosein - Chemistry of Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
This perspective presents a recently developed approach to organize polymer and polymer
composite materials through a new form of light-directed organization of photoreactive …

Fabrication of a flexible transparent superomniphobic polydimethylsiloxane surface with a micropillar array

S Pan, M Chen, L Wu - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Although superomniphobic surfaces have attracted extensive interest owing to many
important applications, successful fabrication of such surfaces still remains a critical …