Directional shedding-off of water on natural/bio-mimetic taper-ratchet array surfaces

The Structural Color of Red Rose Petals and Their Duplicates

(2010) Lin Feng et al.   LANGMUIR

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

Bioinspired Super-antiwetting Interfaces with Special Liquid−Solid Adhesion

(2009) Mingjie Liu et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

High-Resolution Contact Printing with Chemically Patterned Flat Stamps Fabricated by Nanoimprint Lithography

(2009) Xuexin Duan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ratchet-induced anisotropic behavior of superparamagnetic microdroplet

(2009) Jihua Zhang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

A surface embossing technique to create micro-grooves on an aluminum fin stock for drainage enhancement

(2009) Liping Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Mimicking Biological Structured Surfaces by Phase-Separation Micromolding

(2009) Jian Gao et al.   LANGMUIR

Directing cell motions on micropatterned ratchets

(2009) Goher Mahmud et al.   Nature Physics

Anisotropic hysteresis on ratcheted superhydrophobic surfaces

(2009) H. Kusumaatmaja et al.   Soft Matter

Unidirectional wetting and spreading on stooped polymer nanohairs

(2009) Tae-il Kim et al.   Soft Matter

Wetting and Roughness

(2008) David Quéré   Annual Review of Materials Research

Directing the transportation of a water droplet on a patterned superhydrophobic surface

(2008) Qian Feng Xu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Anisotropic Wetting Behavior Arising from Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Parallel Grooved Structure

(2008) Wen Li et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Strongly Anisotropic Wetting on One-Dimensional Nanopatterned Surfaces

(2008) Deying Xia et al.   NANO LETTERS

BIOPHYSICS: The Intrigue of the Interface

(2008) M. W. Denny   SCIENCE

Surface Tension Transport of Prey by Feeding Shorebirds: The Capillary Ratchet

(2008) M. Prakash et al.   SCIENCE

“Lock-and-Key” Geometry Effect of Patterned Surfaces: Wettability and Switching of Adhesive Force

(2008) Xing-Jiu Huang et al.   Small

Biomimetic nanofiber patterns with controlled wettability

(2008) Hui Wu et al.   Soft Matter