Laser Direct Writing of Tree-Shaped Hierarchical Cones on a Superhydrophobic Film for High-Efficiency Water Collection

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 9; no. 34; pp. 29248 - 29254
• Main Authors: Wang, Meng, Liu, Qian, Zhang, Haoran, Wang, Chuang, Wang, Lei, Xiang, Bingxi, Fan, Yongtao, Guo, Chuan Fei, Ruan, Shuangchen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 30.08.2017
• Subjects: air; Araneae; droplets; films (materials); geometry; harvesting; hydrophobicity; Nepenthes alata; silk; transportation; wettability; hierarchical patterns; microfluidics; water collection; superhydrophobic; laser direct writing

Directional water collection has stimulated a great deal of interest because of its potential applications in the field of microfluidics, liquid transportation, fog harvesting, and so forth. There have been some bio or bioinspired structures for directional water collection, from one-dimensional spi...