An engineered anisotropic nanofilm with unidirectional wetting properties

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1023-1028

  Malvadkar, Niranjan A ^a   Hancock, Matthew J ^b   Sekeroglu, Koray ^a   Dressick, Walter J ^c   Demirel, Melik C ^a  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOMIMETICS; DROPS; NANORODS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANISOTROPIC SURFACES; ANISOTROPIC WETTING; BIOMIMETIC SURFACES; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; NATURAL FEATURES; POLY(P XYLYLENE); RATCHET MECHANISMS; VAPOUR PHASE TECHNIQUE;

WETTING;

NANOMATERIAL; NANOTUBE; POLY(P XYLYLENE); POLY(P-XYLYLENE); POLYMER; WATER; XYLENE;

ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; BUTTERFLY; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENGINEERING; FORELIMB; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; VIDEORECORDING; WETTABILITY;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIOMIMETICS; BUTTERFLIES; ENGINEERING; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; VIDEO RECORDING; WATER; WETTABILITY; WING; XYLENES;

EID: 78650025139     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2864     Document Type: Article

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