Fundamental and perspectives of thermo-responsive materials for dehumidification and water harvesting

S Tian, Y Geng, L Huang, S Li, Q Wang, X Su - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dehumidification and water harvesting require high efficiency technologies. Compared with
traditional materials, thermo-responsive materials (eg, PNIPAM) can achieve low …

Fabrication of thermoresponsive hydrogel scaffolds with engineered microscale vasculatures

S Li, W Wang, W Li, M Xie, C Deng… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Precise fabrication of microscale vasculatures (MSVs) has long been an unresolved
challenge in tissue engineering. Currently, light‐assisted printing is the most common …

Primary return air or all fresh air? A novel method for air source designing of heat pump desiccant wheel systems

S Tian, Y Huang, Y Geng, L Huang, S Li, Q Wang… - Energy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hybrid desiccant wheel systems are widely adopted for low humidity control in industrial
field. The clarification of process and regeneration air management is required to achieve …

Reusable structural colored nanostructure for powerless temperature and humidity sensing

P Cencillo‐Abad, P Mastranzo‐Ortega… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanostructured materials have enabled new ways of controlling the light–matter interaction,
opening new routes for exciting applications, in display technologies and colorimetric …

Thermoresponsive PNIPAm–PMMA-functionalized PVDF membranes with reactive Fe–Pd nanoparticles for PCB degradation

A Saad, R Mills, H Wan, L Ormsbee… - Industrial & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fe–Pd nanoparticles are immobilized in stimuli-responsive poly-N-isopropylacrylamide
(PNIPAm)-and poly-methyl methacrylate-functionalized polyvinylidene fluoride membranes …

Preparation of fluorine-free superhydrophobic paper with dual-response of temperature and pH

B Du, D Xue, R Luo, H Li, K Yang, S Zhou - Coatings, 2020 - mdpi.com
Although various superhydrophobic materials have been manufactured and effectively used
for oil–water separation, it is still highly desirable to explore materials which are eco-friendly …

PNIPAM Brushes in Colloidal Photonic Crystals Enable Ex Situ Ethanol Vapor Sensing

E Diepenbroek, MB Pérez… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Structural colors are formed by the periodic repetition of nanostructures in a material. Upon
reversibly tuning the size or optical properties of the repetitive unit inside a nanostructured …

Dual responsive curcumin loaded N-isopropylacrylamide/acrylated linseed oil copolymeric hydrogel films: tuned LCST with value-added properties

PA Parvathy, VA Ajisafe, AM Raichur… - New Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Cross-linked poly (N-isopropylacrylamide), a typical representative of smart thermo-
responsive polymers, usually shows a broad range of lower critical solution temperature …

Recent progresses in nanometer scale analysis of buried layers and interfaces in thin films by X-rays and Neutrons

K Stoev, K Sakurai - Analytical Sciences, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In the early 1960s, scientists achieved the breakthroughs in the fields of solid surfaces and
artificial layered structures. The advancement of surface science has been supported by the …

Autonomous capillary microfluidic devices with constant flow rate and temperature-controlled valving

L Li, EY Westerbeek, JC Vollenbroek, S de Beer… - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, we report on a capillary microfluidic device with constant flow rate and
temperature-triggered stop valve function. It contains a PDMS channel that was grafted by a …