Bioinspired Superwettability

The book provides a comprehensive and broad overview of superwettability with concepts borrowed from biology. It starts with the fundamentals of wetting behavior and then covers the preparation and characterization of materials with different degrees of wettability. The major part of the book is devoted to the potential and already realized applications of superwettability.

Autorentext

Lei Jiang is Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He received his MSc degree from Jilin University of China and his PhD in physical chemistry jointly from Jilin University of China and Tokyo University, Japan. Professor Jiang?s main research fields are design and fabrication of bioinspired surfaces with controllable wettability as well as the construction of ion channels through the assembly of functional DNA molecules. Professor Jiang has received numerous awards and is member of the editorial boards of multiple renowned journals.

Inhalt
Volume 1: 1 Introduction 2 Characterizations of superwettability 3 Preparation of Superhydrophobic Substrates Methods and Materials 4 Superhydrophilic Materials 5 Smart surfaces with stimuli responsive wettability 6 Electric Field-responsive Superwetting 7 Superwettability of Gas Bubbles on Solid-liquid Interfaces 8 Under-Liquid Superwettabiltiy 9 Superwettability of Ionic Liquid 10 Wettability by low temperature liquid metals Volume 2: 11 Photonic Crystal Wettabiltiy 12 Quantum-confined superfluid 13 Liquid Gating 14 Bio-inspired Dynamic Wetting on Fibers 15 Wettability and Applications of Nanochannels 16 Superwettability Mediate One Demensional Micro/nano-structures 17 Superwettability-Mediated Droplet Dynamics 18 Superwettability-based Liquid-liquid Separation 19 Superwettability-based Three-phase Interfacial Reaction Volume 3: 20 Interfacial Solar Evaporation with Superwetting Materials 21 Superwettability-based Enhancement of Phase-change Heat Transfer 22 Controllable liquid overflow dynamics 23 Superwettability-based Lubrication 24 Bioinspired Slippery Surfaces: from Design Principle to Biomedical Applications 25 Control of Cell Adhesion on Superwetting Surfaces 26 Wet Adhesion: From Nature to Bio-inspired Fabrications 27 Interfacial materials for anti-icing 28 Binary Cooperative Complementary Interfacial Nanomaterials