Understanding and utilizing droplet impact on superhydrophobic surfaces: phenomena, mechanisms, regulations, applications, and beyond

Z Hu, F Chu, H Shan, X Wu, Z Dong… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet impact is a ubiquitous liquid behavior that closely tied to human life and production,
making indispensable impacts on the big world. Nature‐inspired superhydrophobic surfaces …

Drop impact on a solid surface

C Josserand, ST Thoroddsen - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
A drop hitting a solid surface can deposit, bounce, or splash. Splashing arises from the
breakup of a fine liquid sheet that is ejected radially along the substrate. Bouncing and …

Water impacting on superhydrophobic macrotextures

A Gauthier, S Symon, C Clanet, D Quéré - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
It has been recently shown that the presence of macrotextures on superhydrophobic
materials can markedly modify the dynamics of water impacting them, and in particular …

Spontaneous droplets gyrating via asymmetric self-splitting on heterogeneous surfaces

H Li, W Fang, Y Li, Q Yang, M Li, Q Li, XQ Feng… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Droplet impacting and bouncing off solid surface plays a vital role in various biological/
physiological processes and engineering applications. However, due to a lack of accurate …

Regulation of droplet impacting on superhydrophobic surfaces: Coupled effects of macrostructures, wettability patterns, and surface motion

F Chu, S Li, Z Hu, X Wu - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Superhydrophobic surfaces have shown great application prospects due to their excellent
water repellency in many applications involving fluid–surface interactions. As a ubiquitous …

Superhydrophobic-like tunable droplet bouncing on slippery liquid interfaces

C Hao, J Li, Y Liu, X Zhou, Y Liu, R Liu, L Che… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Droplet impacting on solid or liquid interfaces is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature.
Although complete rebound of droplets is widely observed on superhydrophobic surfaces …

Drop impact dynamics on solid surfaces

W Fang, K Zhang, Q Jiang, C Lv, C Sun, Q Li… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Drop impact on solid surfaces widely occurs both in nature and engineering. In this
Perspective, we review the recent advances in experimental, theoretical, and numerical …

Droplet self-propulsion on superhydrophobic microtracks

C Stamatopoulos, A Milionis, N Ackerl, M Donati… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Liquid transport (continuous or segmented) in microfluidic platforms typically requires
pumping devices or external fields working collaboratively with special fluid properties to …

Patterning wettability for open-surface fluidic manipulation: fundamentals and applications

P Sinha Mahapatra, R Ganguly, A Ghosh… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Effective manipulation of liquids on open surfaces without external energy input is
indispensable for the advancement of point-of-care diagnostic devices. Open-surface …

Droplet precise self‐splitting on patterned adhesive surfaces for simultaneous multidetection

H Li, W Fang, Z Zhao, A Li, Z Li, M Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Precise separation and localization of microdroplets are fundamental for various fields, such
as high‐throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry, and the recognition of complex …