ArticleNature communications2021
Slippery damper of an overlay for arresting and manipulating droplets on nonwetting surfaces.
Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Interfacial amplifier: High-throughput visual protein detection via droplet dynamics.Science advances · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of rebound suppression of oil-in-water emulsion droplet on superhydrophobic surface.Pest management science · 2026Article
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- Nepenthes pitcher plant inspired bio-polymer embedded porous surfaces for oil aquaplaning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Numerical Investigation of Mixing Performance in Microfluidic Chip via Structural Micro-Rotors.Micromachines · 2025Article
- The limit of droplet rebound angle.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Open and closed microfluidics for biosensing.Materials today. Bio · 2024Review
- Suppression of hollow droplet rebound on super-repellent surfaces.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Wetting Ridge-Guided Directional Water Self-Transport.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- A review on control of droplet motion based on wettability modulation: principles, design strategies, recent progress, and applications.Science and technology of advanced materials · 2022Review
- Breaking the symmetry to suppress the Plateau-Rayleigh instability and optimize hydropower utilization.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
In diverse processes, such as fertilization, insecticides, and cooling, liquid delivery is compromised by the super-repellency of receiving surfaces, including super-hydro-/omni-phobic and superheated types, a consequence of intercalated air pockets or vapor cushions that promote droplet rebounds as floating mass-spring systems. By simply overlaying impacting droplets with a tiny amount of lubricant (less than 0.1 vol% of the droplet), their interfacial properties are modified in such a way that damper-roller support is attached to the mass-spring system. The overlayers suppress the out-of-plane rebounds by slowing the departing droplets through viscous dissipation and sustain the droplets' in-plane mobility through self-lubrication, a preferential state for scenarios such as shedding of liquid in spray cooling and repositioning of droplets in printing. The footprint of our method can be made to be minimal, circumventing surface contamination and toxification. Our method enables multifunctional and dynamic control of droplets that impact different types of nonwetting surfaces.
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