Bioinspired oil strider floating at the oil/water interface supported by huge superoleophobic force

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5614-5620

  Liu, Xueli ^a,b   Gao, Jun ^a,b   Xue, Zhongxin ^a,b   Chen, Li ^a,b   Lin, Ling ^a,b   Jiang, Lei ^a   Wang, Shutao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

aquatic devices; copper materials; interfaces; micro nanostructures; oil repellent surfaces; superoleophobic force; underwater superoleophobicity

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC DEVICES; COPPER MATERIALS; MICRO/NANOSTRUCTURES; SUPEROLEOPHOBIC FORCE; UNDERWATER SUPEROLEOPHOBICITY;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; COPPER; OIL SPILLS; WIRE;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

OIL; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; ROBOTICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOMIMETICS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; OILS; ROBOTICS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84862835849     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301550v     Document Type: Article

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