Issue 66, 2020
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Anisotropy-induced directional self-transportation of low surface tension liquids: a review

Mohammad Soltani ORCID logo a  and  Kevin Golovin ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Okanagan Polymer Engineering Research & Applications Laboratory, Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia, Canada
E-mail: kevin.golovin@ubc.ca

Abstract

Inspired by natural surfaces such as butterfly wings, cactus leaves, or the Nepenthes alata plant, synthetic materials may be engineered to directionally transport liquids on their surface without external energy input. This advantageous feature has been adopted for various mechanical and chemical processes, e.g. fog harvesting, lubrication, lossless chemical reactions, etc. Many studies have focused on the manipulation and transport of water or aqueous droplets, but significantly fewer have extended their work to low surface tension (LST) liquids, although these fluids are involved in numerous industrial and everyday processes. LST liquids completely wet most surfaces which makes spontaneous transportation an active challenge. This review focuses on recently developed strategies for passively and directionally transporting LST liquids.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA08627D
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
09 Oct 2020
Accepted
02 Nov 2020
First published
07 Nov 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2020,10, 40569-40581

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Anisotropy-induced directional self-transportation of low surface tension liquids: a review

M. Soltani and K. Golovin, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 40569 DOI: 10.1039/D0RA08627D

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