Recent advances in prevailing antifogging surfaces: structures, materials, durability, and beyond

J Chu, G Tian, X Feng - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In past decades, antifogging surfaces have drawn more and more attention owing to their
promising and wide applications such as in aerospace, traffic transportation, optical devices …

Continuous roller nanoimprinting: next generation lithography

Z Peng, Y Zhang, CLR Choi, P Zhang, T Wu, YK Chan - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a cost-effective and high-throughput technique for
replicating nanoscale structures that does not require expensive light sources for advanced …

Manufacturing of multiscale structured surfaces

E Brinksmeier, B Karpuschewski, J Yan… - CIRP Annals, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiscale structured surfaces are a way to provide advanced, otherwise not attainable
functionality on a technical part. Applications of such parts can be manifold, and numerous …

Artificial compound eyes prepared by a combination of air-assisted deformation, modified laser swelling, and controlled crystal growth

J Li, W Wang, X Mei, A Pan, X Sun, B Liu, J Cui - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
This study presents the manufacturing process of bioinspired compound (BIC) eyes. The
hierarchical eyes were accomplished by a combination of (i) modified laser swelling,(ii) air …

Fabrication of artificial compound eye with controllable field of view and improved imaging

J Li, W Wang, X Mei, D Hou, A Pan… - ACS applied materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Many arthropods have compound eyes, which are made up of numerous separate visual
units (microlenses) or ommatidia. These natural compound eyes have exceptional optical …

Fabrication of hierarchical micro/nano compound eyes

W Wang, J Li, R Li, B Li, X Mei… - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fabrication of a hierarchical macro-/micro-/nano compound eye is presented in this paper.
This bioinspired compound (BIC) eye is obtained by an integrated manufacturing technology …

Hierarchical artificial compound eyes with wide field-of-view and antireflection properties prepared by nanotip-focused electrohydrodynamic jet printing

S Su, J Liang, X Li, W Xin, X Ye, J Xiao… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Artificial compound eyes (ACEs) endowed with durable superhydrophobicity, wide field-of-
view (FOV), and antireflection properties are extremely appealing in advanced micro-optical …

Transparent surfaces inspired by nature

M Motamedi, ME Warkiani… - Advanced Optical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nature has long inspired scientists and engineers. As one ubiquitous example of this, nature
has provided all with several clever methods to absorb, repel, and/or allow both sunlight and …

Miniature bioinspired artificial compound eyes: microfabrication technologies, photodetection and applications

X Jing, S Li, R Zhu, X Ning, J Lin - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
As an outstanding visual system for insects and crustaceans to cope with the challenges of
survival, compound eye has many unique advantages, such as wide field of view, rapid …

Process optimization for manufacturing functional nanosurfaces by roll-to-roll nanoimprint lithography

U Tahir, JI Kim, S Javeed, A Khaliq, JH Kim, DI Kim… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Roll-to-roll nanoimprint lithography (RTR-NIL) is a low-cost and continuous fabrication
process for large-area functional films. However, the partial ultraviolet (UV) resin filling …