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ArticleScience advances2023

Viscous-capillary entrainment on bioinspired millimetric structure for sustained liquid transfer.

Ziyang Cheng, Chuxin Li, Can Gao, Chengqi Zhang, Lei Jiang, Zhichao Dong

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ziyang ChengCAS Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0009-0004-9581-6279
Chuxin LiSuzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5535-512X
Can GaoCAS Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Chengqi ZhangCAS Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3201-1535
Lei JiangCAS Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4579-728X
Zhichao DongCAS Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0729-5756
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNSuzhou University of Science and Technology · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid entrainment with a solid architecture passing through the fluid-fluid interface is ubiquitous and widely used in industrial processes as a liquid transfer method. Besides liquid properties, solid structures play a core role in entrainment. Although the influence of its macroscopic curvatures and microscale roughness has attracted years of research, the effect and potential of the commonly seen millimetric structures have not been sufficiently explored and exploited. Here, we demonstrate enhanced liquid entrainment on the millimetric structured surface by the co-effect of viscosity and capillarity for sustained liquid transfer of small deviation, including high-quantity uptake and practically operational drainage with small and relatively uniform droplet dripping time of varied liquid viscosities. With the overall process of viscous-capillary entrainment, we achieve stable cyclical arrayed liquid transport, showing its potential for sustained liquid transfer in intractable situations in laboratory, industry, and even daily life.

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