Issue 44, 2014
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Soft Matter

Investigating and biomimicking the surface wetting behaviors of ginkgo leaf†

Shuaijun Pan,a   Rui Guoab  and  Weijian Xu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
E-mail: weijianxu59@gmail.com

b Patent Examination Cooperation Hubei Center of the Patent Office, State Intellectual Property Office, Wuhan 430070, China

Abstract

For the first time, the surface composite Cassie–Baxter wetting state is carefully investigated using ginkgo biloba as natural model. Investigations follow two directions: (a) low local solid contact areal fraction leading to high apparent contact angles; and (b) thick air plastron trapped at the contacting interface leading to stable dewetting state.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4SM01844C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Aug 2014
Accepted
08 Sep 2014
First published
10 Sep 2014

Soft Matter, 2014,10, 8800-8803

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Investigating and biomimicking the surface wetting behaviors of ginkgo leaf

S. Pan, R. Guo and W. Xu, Soft Matter, 2014, 10, 8800 DOI: 10.1039/C4SM01844C

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