Bioinspired Directional Surfaces for Adhesion, Wetting, and Transport

Fibroblast adhesion on unidirectional polymeric nanofilms

(2012) Christof Christophis et al.   Biointerphases

Three-Level Biomimetic Rice-Leaf Surfaces with Controllable Anisotropic Sliding

(2011) Dong Wu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Transport of a soft cargo on a nanoscale ratchet

(2011) Koray Sekeroglu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Catalytic activity of cobalt on nanotextured polymer films for hydrogen production

(2011) Niranjan A. Malvadkar et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Biologically inspired hairy structures for superhydrophobicity

(2011) Shu-Hau Hsu et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS

Leidenfrost on a ratchet

(2011) Guillaume Lagubeau et al.   Nature Physics

Fluid-based adhesion in insects – principles and challenges

(2011) Jan-Henning Dirks et al.   Soft Matter

Functional Adhesive Surfaces with “Gecko” Effect: The Concept of Contact Splitting

(2010) Marleen Kamperman et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Electrically Addressable Hybrid Architectures of Zinc Oxide Nanowires Grown on Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

(2010) Jong G. Ok et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Drop dynamics on hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces

(2010) B. M. Mognetti et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Interfacial propulsion by directional adhesion

(2010) Manu Prakash et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NON-LINEAR MECHANICS

Fabrication and testing of surface ratchets primed with hydrophobic parylene and hexamethyldisilazane for transporting droplets

(2010) Guo-Yuan Hess   Journal of Micro-Nanolithography MEMS and MOEMS

Mechanical anisotropy of nanostructured parylene films during sliding contact

(2010) Eric So et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Stroke Asymmetry of Tilted Superhydrophobic Ion Track Textures

(2010) Reimar Spohr et al.   LANGMUIR

Multimode Dynamics of a Liquid Drop over an Inclined Surface with a Wettability Gradient

(2010) A. K. Das et al.   LANGMUIR

Noncovalent Mechanism for the Conformal Metallization of Nanostructured Parylene Films

(2010) Niranjan A. Malvadkar et al.   LANGMUIR

Is the Cassie−Baxter Formula Relevant?

(2010) Y. Kwon et al.   LANGMUIR

Biostructure-like Surfaces with Thermally Responsive Wettability Prepared by Temperature-Induced Phase Separation Micromolding

(2010) Jian Gao et al.   LANGMUIR

Sliding of Water Droplets on Microstructured Hydrophobic Surfaces

(2010) Cunjing Lv et al.   LANGMUIR

Morphology of Air Nanobubbles Trapped at Hydrophobic Nanopatterned Surfaces

(2010) Antonio Checco et al.   NANO LETTERS

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

Phase-field modeling by the method of lattice Boltzmann equations

(2010) Abbas Fakhari et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

A numerical study of thermocapillary migration of a small liquid droplet on a horizontal solid surface

(2010) Huy-Bich Nguyen et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Emerging themes in soft matter: responsive and active soft materials

(2010) Anna C. Balazs et al.   Soft Matter

Bio-inspired slanted polymer nanohairs for anisotropic wetting and directional dry adhesion

(2010) Moon Kyu Kwak et al.   Soft Matter

A stimuli-responsive coaxial nanofilm for burst release

(2010) Gozde Ozaydin-Ince et al.   Soft Matter

Microstructured Surfaces for Directional Wetting

(2009) Ville Jokinen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A modified Cassie–Baxter relationship to explain contact angle hysteresis and anisotropy on non-wetting textured surfaces

(2009) Wonjae Choi et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Contact Angle Hysteresis Generated by Strong Dilute Defects†

(2009) Mathilde Reyssat et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Imbibition through an array of triangular posts

(2009) M L Blow et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

A microfabricated wedge-shaped adhesive array displaying gecko-like dynamic adhesion, directionality and long lifetime

(2009) A. Parness et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Modeling the Corrugation of the Three-Phase Contact Line Perpendicular to a Chemically Striped Substrate

(2009) Francisco J. Montes Ruiz-Cabello et al.   LANGMUIR

Numerical simulation of the coupling problems of a solid sphere impacting on a liquid free surface

(2009) Minh Do-Quang et al.   MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION

Anisotropic self-assembly of spherical polymer-grafted nanoparticles

(2009) Pinar Akcora et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Directing cell motions on micropatterned ratchets

(2009) Goher Mahmud et al.   Nature Physics

Capillary filling in microchannels patterned by posts

(2009) B. M. Mognetti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

The splash of a solid sphere impacting on a liquid surface: Numerical simulation of the influence of wetting

(2009) Minh Do-Quang et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

A nontransferring dry adhesive with hierarchical polymer nanohairs

(2009) H. E. Jeong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Botanical ratchets

(2009) I.M. Kulic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unidirectional wetting and spreading on stooped polymer nanohairs

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

Directional adhesion of gecko-inspired angled microfiber arrays

(2008) Jongho Lee et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Emergent properties of spatially organized poly(p-xylylene) films fabricated by vapor deposition

(2008) Melik C. Demirel   COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS

The collapse transition on superhydrophobic surfaces

(2008) H. Kusumaatmaja et al.   EPL

Constitutive modeling of contact angle hysteresis

(2008) Srikanth Vedantam et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Power-law scaling of structured poly(p-xylylene) films deposited by oblique angle

(2008) Murat Cetinkaya et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Catalytic activity of cobalt deposited on nanostructured poly(p-xylylene) films

(2008) Niranjan Malvadkar et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Drops on Microstructured Surfaces Coated with Hydrophilic Polymers:  Wenzel's Model and Beyond

(2008) Christian Dorrer et al.   LANGMUIR