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Article: Well-defined porous membranes for robust omniphobic surfaces via microfluidic emulsion templating
Title | Well-defined porous membranes for robust omniphobic surfaces via microfluidic emulsion templating |
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Keywords | Collembola cuticle emulsion membrane morphology |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Nature Research (part of Springer Nature): Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html |
Citation | Nature Communications, 2017, v. 8, p. article no. 15823 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Durability is a long-standing challenge in designing liquid-repellent surfaces. A high-performance omniphobic surface must robustly repel liquids, while maintaining mechanical/chemical stability. However, liquid repellency and mechanical durability are generally mutually exclusive properties for many omniphobic surfaces—improving one performance inevitably results in decreased performance in another. Here we report well-defined porous membranes for durable omniphobic surfaces inspired by the springtail cuticle. The omniphobicity is shown via an amphiphilic material micro-textured with re-entrant surface morphology; the mechanical durability arises from the interconnected microstructures. The innovative fabrication method—termed microfluidic emulsion templating—is facile, cost-effective, scalable and can precisely engineer the structural topographies. The robust omniphobic surface is expected to open up new avenues for diverse applications due to its mechanical and chemical robustness, transparency, reversible Cassie–Wenzel transition, transferability, flexibility and stretchability. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272921 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 14.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.887 |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhu, P | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kong, T | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tang, X | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, L | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-06T09:19:06Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-06T09:19:06Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Nature Communications, 2017, v. 8, p. article no. 15823 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272921 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Durability is a long-standing challenge in designing liquid-repellent surfaces. A high-performance omniphobic surface must robustly repel liquids, while maintaining mechanical/chemical stability. However, liquid repellency and mechanical durability are generally mutually exclusive properties for many omniphobic surfaces—improving one performance inevitably results in decreased performance in another. Here we report well-defined porous membranes for durable omniphobic surfaces inspired by the springtail cuticle. The omniphobicity is shown via an amphiphilic material micro-textured with re-entrant surface morphology; the mechanical durability arises from the interconnected microstructures. The innovative fabrication method—termed microfluidic emulsion templating—is facile, cost-effective, scalable and can precisely engineer the structural topographies. The robust omniphobic surface is expected to open up new avenues for diverse applications due to its mechanical and chemical robustness, transparency, reversible Cassie–Wenzel transition, transferability, flexibility and stretchability. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Nature Research (part of Springer Nature): Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature Communications | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Collembola | - |
dc.subject | cuticle | - |
dc.subject | emulsion | - |
dc.subject | membrane | - |
dc.subject | morphology | - |
dc.title | Well-defined porous membranes for robust omniphobic surfaces via microfluidic emulsion templating | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wang, L: lqwang@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Wang, L=rp00184 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/ncomms15823 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 28604698 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC5472779 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85020717454 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 300441 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 8 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 15823 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 15823 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000403063700001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2041-1723 | - |