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most citedMetasurfaces Leveraging Solar Energy for Icephobicity

153 citations · 189 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.soft2023★ 3 cited

Elastic Microphase Separation Produces Robust Bicontinuous Materials

Carla Fernández-Rico, Sanjay Schreiber, Hamza Oudich +8

Bicontinuous microstructures are essential to the function of diverse natural and synthetic systems. Their synthesis has been based on two approaches: arrested phase separation or…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

ATRP enhances structural correlations in polymerization-induced phase separation

Alba Sicher, Richard Whitfield, Jan Ilavsky +3

Synthetic methods to control the structure of materials at sub-micron scales are typically based on the self-assembly of structural building blocks with precise size and morphology…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 33 cited

Enhancing the Refractive Index of Polymers with a Plant-Based Pigment

Mohammad Yasir, Tianqi Sai, Alba Sicher +4

Polymeric materials are prized for their formability, low density, and functional versatility. However, the refractive indices of common polymers fall in a relatively narrow range…

cond-mat.soft2021

Structural Color from Solid-State Polymerization-Induced Phase Separation

Alba Sicher, Rabea Ganz, Andreas Menzel +8

Structural colors are produced by wavelength-dependent scattering of light from nanostructures. While living organisms often exploit phase separation to directly assemble structura…

physics.app-ph2018★ 153 cited

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…