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Autonomous Close-Proximity Photovoltaic Panel Coating Using a Quadcopter
Dimitri Jacquemont, Carlo Bosio, Teaya Yang +7
Photovoltaic (PV) panels are becoming increasingly widespread in the domain of renewable energy, and thus, small efficiency gains can have massive effects. Anti-reflective and self…
Transparent Photothermal Metasurfaces Amplifying Superhydrophobicity by Absorbing Sunlight
Efstratios Mitridis, Henry Lambley, Sven Tröber +2
Imparting and maintaining surface superhydrophobicity is receiving significant research attention over the last several years, driven by a broad range of important applications and…
Transparent Metasurfaces Counteracting Fogging by Harnessing Sunlight
Christopher Walker, Efstratios Mitridis, Thomas Kreiner +3
Surface fogging is a common phenomenon that can have significant and detrimental effects on surface transparency and visibility. It affects the performance in a wide range of appli…
Desublimation Frosting on Nanoengineered Surfaces
Christopher Walker, Sebastian Lerch, Matthias Reininger +4
Ice nucleation from vapor presents a variety of challenges across a wide range of industries and applications including refrigeration, transportation, and energy generation. Howeve…
3D-Printed Surface Architecture Enhancing Superhydrophobicity and Viscous Droplet Repellency
Gustav Graeber, Oskar B. Martin Kieliger, Thomas M. Schutzius +1
Macro-textured superhydrophobic surfaces can reduce droplet-substrate contact times of impacting water droplets, however, surface designs with similar performance for significantly…
Cascade Freezing of Supercooled Water Droplet Collectives
Gustav Graeber, Valentin Dolder, Thomas M. Schutzius +1
Surface icing affects the safety and performance of numerous processes in technology. Previous studies mostly investigated freezing of individual droplets. The interaction among mu…
Metasurfaces Leveraging Solar Energy for Icephobicity
Efstratios Mitridis, Thomas M. Schutzius, Alba Sicher +3
Inhibiting ice accumulation on surfaces is an energy-intensive task and is of significant importance in nature and technology where it has found applications in windshields, automo…
Imparting icephobicity with substrate flexibility
Thomas Vasileiou, Thomas M. Schutzius, Dimos Poulikakos
Ice accumulation hinders the performance of, and poses safety threats for infrastructure both on the ground and in the air. Previously, rationally designed superhydrophobic surface…
Detergency and its implications for oil emulsion sieving and separation
Thomas M. Schutzius, Christopher Walker, Tanmoy Maitra +9
Separating petroleum hydrocarbons from water is an important problem to address in order to mitigate the disastrous effects of hydrocarbons on aquatic ecosystems. A rational approa…
Contactless Transport and Mixing of Liquids on Self-Sustained Sublimating Coatings
Athanasios Milionis, Carlo Antonini, Stefan Jung +3
The controlled handling of liquids and colloidal suspensions as they interact with surfaces, targeting a broad palette of related functionalities, is of great importance in science…
On the mechanism of hydrophilicity of graphene
Guo Hong, Yang Han, Thomas M. Schutzius +7
It is generally accepted that the hydrophilic property of graphene can be affected by the underlying substrate. However, the role of intrinsic vs. substrate contributions and the r…
Sustaining dry surfaces under water
Paul R. Jones, Xiuqing Hao, Eduardo R. Cruz-Chu +9
Rough surfaces immersed under water remain practically dry if the liquid-solid contact is on roughness peaks, while the roughness valleys are filled with gas. Mechanisms that preve…
Surface Engineering for Phase Change Heat Transfer: A Review
Daniel Attinger, Christophe Frankiewicz, Amy R. Betz +5
Among numerous challenges to meet the rising global energy demand in a sustainable manner, improving phase change heat transfer has been at the forefront of engineering research fo…