ArticleScientific reports2016
Directional Movement of Droplets in Grooves: Suspended or Immersed?
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- Biomimetic Anisotropy for Directional Transport of Liquid and Solid Samples.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Topography-driven movement of biomolecular condensates.PloS one · 2026Article
- Condensate droplet roaming on nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Spheroids formation in large drops suspended in superhydrophobic paper cones.Biomicrofluidics · 2024Article
- Designing of anisotropic gradient surfaces for directional liquid transport: Fundamentals, construction, and applications.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2023Review
- The ejection of large non-oscillating droplets from a hydrophobic wedge in microgravity.NPJ microgravity · 2021Article
- Influence of liquid bridge formation process on its stability in nonparallel plates.RSC advances · 2020Article
- Unidirectional transport of water nanodroplets entrapped inside a nonparallel smooth surface: a molecular dynamics simulation study.RSC advances · 2019Article
- Effects of wettability on droplet movement in a V-shaped groove.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
The behavior of droplets trapped in geometric structures is essential to droplet manipulation applications such as for droplet transport. Here we show that directional droplet movement can be realized by a V-shaped groove with the movement direction controlled by adjusting the surface wettability of the groove inner wall and the cross sectional angle of the groove. Experiments and analyses show that a droplet in a superhydrophobic groove translates from the immersed state to the suspended state as the cross sectional angle of the groove decreases and the suspended droplet departs from the groove bottom as the droplet volume increases. We also demonstrate that this simple grooved structure can be used to separate a water-oil mixture and generate droplets with the desired sizes. The structural effect actuated droplet movements provide a controllable droplet transport method which can be used in a wide range of droplet manipulation applications.
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