Nature's Raincoats

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  • Where we’ve exhibited
  • Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2009
• Introduction
  • Hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces
  • Water-shedding surfaces
• Bioinspiration
  • Adaptation of animals to water
    • Water strider / pond skater
    • Water boatman
    • Mosquito / Midge
    • Water spider
    • Great diving beetle
    • Desert beetle
    • Waterfowl
    • Butterfly
    • Mammals and marsupials
    • Land crab
    • Fire ant
    • Gall aphids
  • Adaptation of plants to water
    • Lotus leaf
    • Cabbage
    • Mexican Hens plant
    • Columbine
    • Nasturtium
    • Lady’s Mantle
    • Euphorbia
    • Pitcher plant
    • Symbiotic lichens
• Artificial surfaces
  • Superhydrophobic surfaces
    • Polymer Microposts
    • Fractal Structures
    • Superhydrophobic Foams
    • Etched Copper
    • Multi-scale Texturing
    • Granular Materials
    • Liquid Marbles
    • Leidenfrost Effect
  • Water-shedding Surfaces
    • Superhydrophobic Nanoparticles
    • Superhydrophobic Microtextures
    • Shaped-Lubricant Surfaces
    • Water-repellent soils
  • Uses of superhydrophobic surfaces
    • Self-cleaning surfaces
    • Droplet impact and rebound
    • Evaporating droplets
    • Directing droplet motion
    • Super-vortex: skating
    • Artificial leaves
    • Sensing changes
    • Breathing underwater
    • Plastron drag reduction
    • Flow through pipes
  • Uses of water-shedding surfaces
    • Self-propelled droplet motion
    • Bidirectional droplet motion
• Research
  • Research groups
  • Recent research involving solid-liquid interfaces
    • Research involving superhydrophobicity
      • Leidenfrost engine
      • Capillary origami
      • Plastron lubrication model
      • Leidenfrost-directed motion
    • Research involving water-shedding surfaces
      • Pinning-free evaporation
      • Liquid version of Young’s Law
      • Liquid-on-solid Amontons’ laws
      • Cheerios effect on SLIPS
        • Cheerios effect
      • SAW-driven motion
      • Liquid lenses on SLIPS
      • Liquid-liquid Interfacial Tensions
      • The Liquid Surface Zisman Plot
    • Smart control of wetting
      • Superspreading without surfactants
      • Dewetting of a liquid film
      • Voltage-programmable optics
      • Bubble control
      • Shaping liquid films
      • Controlling instabilities
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