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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Droplet manipulation"”.
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Droplet manipulation on structured shape memory polymer surface
… of surface wettability to manipulate water droplets have been widely explored for many applications including digital microfluidics, those based on dynamically changeable surface morphology have remained challenging to achieve. In this work, we present a structured shape memory polymer (SMP) …
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Active lubricant-impregnated surfaces
… lubricant-impregnated surfaces for enhanced droplet mobility and manipulation. Droplet manipulation and mobility on non-wetting surfaces is of practical importance for diverse applications ranging from micro-fluidic devices, anti-icing, drop-wise condensation and biomedical devices, however …
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Electrohydrodynamic Manipulation of Sessile Droplets by the In-Plane Electric Fields
… DC voltages in the kV-range applied) on sessile droplets of multiple pure liquids, solvents, colloidal suspensions (with particles and pigments) and conducting polymers commonly used in painting and coating processes. This fundamental research aims at understanding the principles and mechanisms …
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Additively Manufactured Bioinspired Microstructures for Active Surface Modification
… printing strategies, achieving directional droplet motion controlled by structural geometry and arrangement. The reversed wetting trend compared with natural wings revealed key insights into the structure–performance relationship. Next, microstructures were integrated with dielectric …
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Magnetic tunable microstructured surfaces for thermal management and microfluidic applications
… enhancement in phase-change systems and liquid manipulation in microfluidic devices. While significant efforts have focused on fabricating static micro/nanostructured arrays, uniform arrays that can be dynamically tuned have not yet been demonstrated. In this work, we present a novel fabrication …
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Advanced transfer printing methods and their applications to functional surfaces
… with optimized functionalities including droplet manipulation, omniphobicity, liquid filtration, adhesion control, electroluminescence, and aquatic soft robot locomotion.
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Electrokinetic Phenomena in Colloidal Systems: Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Electrophoresis and Diffusiophoresis
Transport and manipulation of particles and droplets are of significant interest in various fields, including biology, separation systems, and reaction engineering. In this regard, electrokinetic phenomena such as electrophoresis (EP) and diffusiophoresis (DP) have been widely adopted. EP involves …
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Experimental and numerical study of temperature-actuated droplets within microfluidics
Droplet microfluidics (DM), which involves the production of nano-/micro- droplets and particles using immiscible phases, reveals an impressive evolutionary trend that have been widely used to establish highly sensitive, robust, and flexible multitasking microsystems. Droplets generated by DM …