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High-resolution Cryogenic Spectroscopy of Single Molecules in Nanoprinted Crystals
Mohammad Musavinezhad, Jan Renger, Johannes Zirkelbach +6
We perform laser spectroscopy at liquid helium temperatures (T=2 K) to investigate single dibenzoterrylene (DBT) molecules doped in anthracene crystals of nanoscopic height fabrica…
Scaling of Hybrid QDs-Graphene Photodetectors to Subwavelength Dimension
Gökhan Kara, Patrik Rohner, Erfu Wu +6
Emerging colloidal quantum dot (cQD) photodetectors currently challenge established state-of-the-art infrared photodetectors in response speed, spectral tunability, simplicity of s…
Durable, ultrathin, and antifouling polymer brush coating for efficient condensation heat transfer
Shuai Li, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Matteo Donati +9
Heat exchangers are made of metals because of their high heat conductivity and mechanical stability. Metal surfaces are inherently hydrophilic, leading to inefficient filmwise cond…
Condensate droplet roaming on nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces
Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Kartik Regulagadda, Matteo Donati +5
Jumping of coalescing condensate droplets from superhydrophobic surfaces is an interesting phenomenon which yields marked heat transfer enhancement over the more explored gravity-d…
Out-of-Plane Biphilic Surface Structuring for Enhanced Capillary-Driven Dropwise Condensation
Luca Stendardo, Athanasios Milionis, George Kokkoris +5
Rapid and sustained condensate droplet departure from a surface is key towards achieving high heat transfer rates in condensation, a physical process critical to a broad range of i…
Measuring the complexity of micro and nanostructured surfaces
A. Arapis, V. Constantoudis, D. Kontziampasis +5
Nanostructured surfaces usually exhibit complicated morphologies that cannot be described in terms of Euclidean geometry. Simultaneously, they do not constitute fully random noise…
Enhancing condensation on soft substrates through bulk lubricant infusion
Chander Shekhar Sharma, Athanasios Milionis, Abhinav Naga +9
Soft substrates such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) enhance droplet nucleation during the condensation of water vapour, because their deformability inherently reduces the energetic…
Acoustic Metal Particle Focusing in a Round Glass Capillary
M. S. Gerlt, A. Paeckel, A. Pavlic +3
Two-dimensional metal particle focusing is an essential task for various fabrication processes. While acoustofluidic devices can manipulate particles in two dimensions, the product…
Ultra-Thin Lubricant-Infused Vertical Graphene Nanoscaffolds for High-Performance Dropwise Condensation
Abinash Tripathy, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Diana Davila +4
Lubricant-infused surfaces (LIS) are highly efficient in repelling water and constitute a very promising family of materials for condensation processes occurring in a broad range o…
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…
Sprayable Thin and Robust Carbon Nanofiber Composite Coating for Extreme Jumping Dropwise Condensation Performance
Matteo Donati, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Athanasios Milionis +4
Condensation of water on metallic surfaces is critical for multiple energy conversion processes. Enhancement in condensation heat transfer efficiency often requires surface texturi…
Metals by micro-scale additive manufacturing: comparison of microstructure and mechanical properties
Alain Reiser, Lukas Koch, Kathleen A. Dunn +16
Many emerging applications in microscale engineering rely on the fabrication of three-dimensional architectures in inorganic materials. Small-scale additive manufacturing (AM) aspi…
A plasmonic painter's method of color mixing for a continuous RGB palette
Claudio U. Hail, Gabriel Schnoering, Mehdi Damak +2
The ability of mixing colors with remarkable results had long been exclusive to the talents of master painters. By finely combining colors at different amounts on the palette intui…
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…
High-Efficiency, Extreme-Numerical-Aperture Metasurfaces Based on Partial Control of the Phase of Light
Claudio U. Hail, Dimos Poulikakos, Hadi Eghlidi
High-quality flat optical elements require efficient light deflection to large angles and over a wide wavelength spectrum. Although phase gradient metasurfaces achieve this by cont…
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…
Exceptional Anti-Icing Performance of Self-Impregnating Slippery Surfaces
Christos Stamatopoulos, Jaroslav Hemrle, Danhong Wang +1
A heat exchange interface at subzero temperature in a water vapor environment, exhibits high probability of frost formation due to freezing condensation, a factor that markedly dec…
Colloidal-quantum-dot spasers and plasmonic amplifiers
Stephan J. P. Kress, Jian Cui, Patrik Rohner +8
Colloidal quantum dots are robust, efficient, and tunable emitters now used in lighting, displays, and lasers. Consequently, when the spaser, a laser-like source of surface plasmon…