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Surface superhydrophobe

Publications associées (28)

Fluorinated surfactants in droplet-based microfluidics: Influence of their composition on the properties of emulsion drops

Gianluca Nicolas Etienne

Miniaturization has been a driving force in many areas of science and technology, most notably in the electronics industry. Droplet-based microfluidics, a methode to produce emulsion drops in a controlled way and at high-throughputs, enables the miniaturiz ...

EPFL2019

Bio-Inspired Fluorine-Free Self-Cleaning Polymer Coatings

Yves Leterrier, Sara Dalle Vacche, Feyza Karasu Kiliç

Bio-inspired fluorine-free and self-cleaning polymer coatings were developed using a combination of self-assembly and UV-printing processes. Nasturtium and lotus leaves were selected as natural template surfaces. A UV-curable acrylate oligomer and three ac ...

2018

Self-cleaning and wear-resistant polymer nanocomposite surfaces

Yves Leterrier, Feyza Karasu Kiliç

Superhydrophobic self-cleaning and wear-resistant nanocomposite surfaces were produced by mimicking the hierarchical structure of the lotus leaf using a combination of rapid self-assembly and a UV nano-imprint lithography (UVNIL) process with a silicone ma ...

2018

Structure and functionality of polyelectrolyte brushes, a surface force perspective

Harm-Anton Klok

The unique functionalities of polyelectrolyte brushes depend on several types of specific interactions, including solvent structure effects, hydrophobic forces, electrostatic interactions, and specific ion interactions. Subtle variations in the solution en ...

2018

Theoretical framework to analyze the combined effect of surface tension and viscosity on the damping rate of sloshing waves

François Gallaire, Francesco Viola

Gravity force, surface tension, oscillating boundary layers, viscous dissipation, static meniscus, contact angle hysteresis, and moving contact lines are typical features of sloshing dynamics. All these ingredients influence capillary-gravity waves in a co ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Bi-stability of contact angle and its role in tuning the morphology of self-assisted GaAs nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Martin George Friedl, Wonjong Kim, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Luca Francaviglia, Lucas Güniat, Heidi Andrea Potts, Jelena Vukajlovic Plestina

We demonstrate the existence of two stable contact angles for the gallium droplet on top of self-assisted GaAs nanowires grown by MBE on patterned silicon substrates. Contact angle around 130 degrees fosters a continuous increase in the nanowire radius, wh ...

IEEE2018

Mixed gold and platinum nanostructured layers for all-solid-state ion sensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Irene Taurino, Francesca Criscuolo

The great interest in portable and wearable monitoring systems has promoted in recent years a major expansion of all-solid-state Ion-Selective Electrodes (ISEs). Nanostructured Solid-Contacts (SCs) have shown a promising potential in order to eliminate the ...

IEEE2018

When droplets deform, break up and propel microswimmers

Giacomo Gallino

This thesis investigates the motion and breakup of droplets in low-Reynolds-number flows, focusing on two aspects. In the first part, we study the breakup of droplets in subcritical flow conditions, when there exists a linearly stable solution for the drop ...

EPFL2018