Petal effect: a superhydrophobic state with high adhesive force.
- L. Feng, Yanan Zhang, Lei Jiang
- PhysicsLangmuir
- 1 March 2008
Artificial fabrication of biomimic polymer films, with well-defined nanoembossed structures obtained by duplicating the petal's surface, indicates that the superhydrophobic surface and the adhesive petal are in Cassie impregnating wetting state.
Bioinspired surfaces with special wettability.
- Taolei Sun, L. Feng, Xuefeng Gao, Lei Jiang
- Materials ScienceAccounts of Chemical Research
- 19 May 2005
Recent progress in wettability on functional surfaces is reviewed through the cooperation between the chemical composition and the surface micro- and nanostructures, which may bring great advantages in a wide variety of applications in daily life, industry, and agriculture.
A multi-structural and multi-functional integrated fog collection system in cactus
- Jie Ju, Hao Bai, Y. Zheng, Tianyi Zhao, Ruochen Fang, Lei Jiang
- BiologyNature Communications
- 4 December 2012
This unique system is composed of well-distributed clusters of conical spines and trichomes on the cactus stem; each spine contains three integrated parts that have different roles in the fog collection process according to their surface structural features.
Two-dimensional graphene bridges enhanced photoinduced charge transport in dye-sensitized solar cells.
- Nailiang Yang, J. Zhai, Dan Wang, Yongsheng Chen, Lei Jiang
- Materials ScienceACS Nano
- 20 January 2010
Graphene was introduced as 2D bridges into the nanocrystalline electrodes of dye-sensitized solar cells, which brought a faster electron transport and a lower recombination, together with a higher light scattering, and the short-circuit current density was increased and the total conversion efficiency was increased.
Bioinspired Design of a Superoleophobic and Low Adhesive Water/Solid Interface
- Mingjie Liu, Shutao Wang, Zhixiang Wei, Yanlin Song, Lei Jiang
- Engineering
- 9 February 2009
A Novel Superhydrophilic and Underwater Superoleophobic Hydrogel‐Coated Mesh for Oil/Water Separation
- Zhongxin Xue, Shutao Wang, Lei Jiang
- EngineeringAdvances in Materials
- 4 October 2011
Oil/water separation is a worldwide challenge because of the increasing industrial oily wastewater, as well as the frequent oil spill accidents. [ 1 ] The environmental and economic demands emphasize…
Directional water collection on wetted spider silk
- Yongmei Zheng, Hao Bai, Lei Jiang
- BiologyNature
- 4 February 2010
Artificial fibres are designed that mimic the structural features of silk and exhibit its directional water-collecting ability by tapping into both driving forces.
Reversible super-hydrophobicity to super-hydrophilicity transition of aligned ZnO nanorod films.
- Xinjian Feng, L. Feng, Meihua Jin, J. Zhai, Lei Jiang, Daoben Zhu
- Materials ScienceJournal of the American Chemical Society
- 14 January 2004
Remarkable surface wettability transition occurs with an inducement of ultraviolet (UV) for aligned ZnO nanorod films and this reversible effect is ascribed to the cooperation of the surface photosensitivity and the aligned nanostructure.
Bioinspired Surfaces with Superwettability: New Insight on Theory, Design, and Applications.
- Shutao Wang, Kesong Liu, X. Yao, Lei Jiang
- Materials ScienceChemical Reviews
- 5 August 2015
Design, and Applications Shutao Wang,†,‡ Kesong Liu, Xi Yao, and Lei Jiang*,†,‡,§ †Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interface Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, and ‡Beijing…
A lotus-leaf-like superhydrophobic surface: a porous microsphere/nanofiber composite film prepared by electrohydrodynamics.
The authors thank the State Key Project for Fundamental Research (G1999064504) and the Special Research Foundation of the National Nature Science Foundation of China for continuing financial support.
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