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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces"”.
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Active lubricant-impregnated surfaces
… the design and testing of actively controlled 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 …
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Design of anti-biofouling Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces (LIS) robust to cell-growth-induced instability
… biomedical applications. Over the last decade, Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces (LIS) has been one of the popular remedies, owing to its unique oil layer that separates solid from cellular media giving no chance for cells to foul. However, a critical bottleneck to this solution has been that …
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Butterflies and batteries : advances in liquid repellent surfaces by anisotropic wetting and lubricant impregnation
Recent advances in creating liquid-repellent surfaces have focused on decreasing the interaction between a liquid and a solid surface by modifying the surface's chemistry and cleverly designing its geometry on nano- and millimetric length scales. This thesis explores two advances to control a …
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Interfacial engineering to control phase transitions : applications in icing and mineral scale fouling
… to address these problems - superhydrophobicity, lubricant-impregnation and active electric fields. While micro-textured superhydrophobic surfaces have been shown to be bad for anti-icing due to the formation of frost between the surface textures, I demonstrate low ice adhesion on nano-textured …
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Engineered interfaces controlling the nucleation and flowability of complex fluids
… surface tension fluids was demonstrated using surfaces with engineered chemistry and textures, with driving forces ranging from electrical, magnetic, gravitational, as well as Marangoni forces. Engineered surfaces were also shown to control and improve processes that involve nucleation …
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Multiphase Interfacial Phenomena for Liquid Manipulation and Defrosting
… interaction of liquid droplets with different surfaces. The insights gained from understanding interfacial behavior are pivotal in fields such as pharmaceuticals, microfluidics, material sciences, and environmental engineering. This dissertation aims to advance our understanding of interfacial …
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Molecular and active interfaces : controlling the adhesion of low surface tension fluids and solid microparticles
… liquids and adhesion of solid microparticles on surfaces. While approaches to repel and control water are studied abundantly in the literature, we focus on low surface tension liquids that readily spread on most substrates, and solid microparticles. Significant attention over the last 50 years …