Biomimetic Water-Collecting Fabric with Light-Induced Superhydrophilic Bumps

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2950-2960

  Wang, Yuanfeng ^a   Wang, Xiaowen ^a   Lai, Chuilin ^a   Hu, Huawen ^a   Kong, Yeeyee ^a   Fei, Bin ^a   Xin, John H ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

biomimetic water collection; Laplace pressure gradient; light induced superhydrophilic; raised structure; wettability gradient

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WETTING;

GLOBAL WATER ISSUES; IN-DEPTH STUDY; SHAPE GRADIENT; SUPER-HYDROPHILIC; SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC FIBERS; WATER COLLECTION; WETTABILITY GRADIENTS;

HYDROPHILICITY;

TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER;

BIOMIMETICS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; COTTON; LIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEXTILE; WETTABILITY;

BIOMIMETICS; COTTON FIBER; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEXTILES; TITANIUM; WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84958025985     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08941     Document Type: Article

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