ArticleScience advances2019
Climbing droplets driven by mechanowetting on transverse waves.
Article in Science advances, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Vibration sorting of small droplets on hydrophilic surface by asymmetric contact-line friction.PNAS nexus · 2022Article
- Programmable droplet manipulation and wetting with soft magnetic carpets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Furcated droplet motility on crystalline surfaces.Nature nanotechnology · 2021Article
- Dynamic manipulation of droplets using mechanically tunable microtextured chemical gradients.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Biomimetic Antigravity Water Transport and Remote Harvesting Powered by Sunlight.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2020Article
- Acoustic streaming vortices enable contactless, digital control of droplets.Science advances · 2020Article
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Abstract
Many applications in modern technology, such as self-cleaning surfaces and digital microfluidics, require control over individual fluid droplets on flat surfaces. Existing techniques may suffer from side effects resulting from high electric fields and high temperatures. Here, we introduce a markedly different method, termed "mechanowetting," that is based on the surface tension-controlled droplet motion on deforming surfaces. The method is demonstrated by transporting droplets using transverse surface waves on horizontal and (vertically) inclined surfaces at transport velocities equal to the wave speed. We fully capture the fundamental mechanism of the mechanowetting force numerically and theoretically and establish its dependence on the fluid properties, surface energy, and wave parameters. Mechanowetting has the potential to lead to a range of new applications that feature droplet control through dynamic surface deformations.
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