Issue 2, 2018
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Materials Horizons

Unidirectional water delivery on a superhydrophilic surface with two-dimensional asymmetrical wettability barriers†

Hui Geng,a   Haoyu Bai,a   Yangyang Fan,a   Shaoyu Wang,a   Teer Ba,a   Cunming Yu,b   Moyuan Cao ORCID logo *a  and  Lei Jiang ORCID logo b  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China
E-mail: moyuan.cao@tju.edu.cn

b Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Abstract

A superhydrophilic surface decorated with 2D hydrophobic water barriers is proven to be a potential platform for unidirectional liquid transport. Differing from the existing systems based on 3D micro-structures, this functional surface features a simplified structure and high adaptiveness that provide more possibilities for the development of fluid manipulating materials.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7MH01138E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
27 12 2017
Accepted
02 2 2018
First published
02 2 2018

Mater. Horiz., 2018,5, 303-308

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Unidirectional water delivery on a superhydrophilic surface with two-dimensional asymmetrical wettability barriers

H. Geng, H. Bai, Y. Fan, S. Wang, T. Ba, C. Yu, M. Cao and L. Jiang, Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5, 303 DOI: 10.1039/C7MH01138E

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