Chinese brushes: From controllable liquid manipulation to template-free printing microlines

Bioinspired One-Dimensional Materials for Directional Liquid Transport

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Bio-Inspired Multistructured Conical Copper Wires for Highly Efficient Liquid Manipulation

(2014) Qianbin Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Chinese Brushes: Controllable Liquid Transfer in Ratchet Conical Hairs

(2014) Qianbin Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Temperature-triggered directional motion of tiny water droplets on bioinspired fibers in humidity

(2013) Yongping Hou et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Patterning of controllable surface wettability for printing techniques

(2013) Dongliang Tian et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Nanowire liquid pumps

(2013) Jian Yu Huang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Photo-controlled water gathering on bio-inspired fibers

(2013) Shile Feng et al.   Soft Matter

Bioinspired Directional Surfaces for Adhesion, Wetting, and Transport

(2012) Matthew J. Hancock et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Functional Fibers with Unique Wettability Inspired by Spider Silks

(2012) Hao Bai et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Macroscopic-Scale Assembled Nanowire Thin Films and Their Functionalities

(2012) Jian-Wei Liu et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Stronger water hanging ability and higher water collection efficiency of bioinspired fiber with multi-gradient and multi-scale spindle knots

(2012) Yongping Hou et al.   Soft Matter

A multi-structural and multi-functional integrated fog collection system in cactus

(2012) Jie Ju et al.   Nature Communications

Pen-on-Paper Flexible Electronics

(2011) Analisa Russo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Controlled drop emission by wetting properties in driven liquid filaments

(2011) R. Ledesma-Aguilar et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Leidenfrost on a ratchet

(2011) Guillaume Lagubeau et al.   Nature Physics

Direction Controlled Driving of Tiny Water Drops on Bioinspired Artificial Spider Silks

(2010) Hao Bai et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Conducting Polymer Electrodes Printed on Hydrogel

(2010) Soichiro Sekine et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mesostructured Assemblies of Ultrathin Superlong Tellurium Nanowires and Their Photoconductivity

(2010) Jian-Wei Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Directional water collection on wetted spider silk

(2010) Yongmei Zheng et al.   NATURE

An engineered anisotropic nanofilm with unidirectional wetting properties

(2010) Niranjan A. Malvadkar et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Uni-directional liquid spreading on asymmetric nanostructured surfaces

(2010) Kuang-Han Chu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Dispensing nano–pico droplets and liquid patterning by pyroelectrodynamic shooting

(2010) P. Ferraro et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Ratchet-induced anisotropic behavior of superparamagnetic microdroplet

(2009) Jihua Zhang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Patterning of superhydrophobic paper to control the mobility of micro-liter drops for two-dimensional lab-on-paper applications

(2009) Balamurali Balu et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Polymer nanofibre junctions of attolitre volume serve as zeptomole-scale chemical reactors

(2009) Pavel Anzenbacher et al.   Nature Chemistry

Molecular printing

(2009) Adam B. Braunschweig et al.   Nature Chemistry

Nanolitre liquid patterning in aqueous environments for spatially defined reagent delivery to mammalian cells

(2009) H. Tavana et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Motion of Drops on a Surface Induced by Thermal Gradient and Vibration

(2008) Srinivas Mettu et al.   LANGMUIR

The transpiration of water at negative pressures in a synthetic tree

(2008) Tobias D. Wheeler et al.   NATURE

Nanoscale characterization of human hair and hair conditioners

(2008) Bharat Bhushan   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE