5 papers
Maximum droplet volume on cylindrical surfaces
Yi Zhang, Apurav Tambe, Zhao Pan
The maximum volume () of a droplet that can remain attached to a horizontal fiber defines the stability limit of droplet-fiber interactions, phenomena common in nature and crit…
Recent Advances in Microfluidics and Bioelectronics for Three-Dimensional Organoid Interfaces
Caroline Ferguson, Yan Li, Yi Zhang +1
Organoids offer a promising alternative in biomedical research and clinical medicine, with better feature recapitulation than 2D cultures. They also have more consistent responses…
Droplet at the Corner of a V-Shaped Fiber
Yi Zhang, Apurav Tambe, Zhao Pan
A fundamental question in the physics of droplet--fiber interactions is: What is the maximum droplet volume a fiber can retain? While this problem has been studied for horizontal f…
Droplets Suspended Beneath a Fiber Hub
Yi Zhang, Zhao Pan
Droplet-fiber interactions, prevalent in nature and widely applied across various engineering fields, have garnered significant research interest. Many works have focused on the in…
Nanopillar-Driven Antibacterial Surfaces: Elucidating Bactericidal Mechanisms and Engineering Nanostructures for Enhanced Efficacy
Akash Singh, Yi Zhang, Qing Cao +1
Insects like dragonflies and cicadas possess nanoprotusions on their wings that rupture bacterial membranes upon contact, inspiring synthetic antibacterial surfaces mimicking this…