Alison Grinthal

TL;DR: A strategy to create self-healing, slippery liquid-infused porous surface(s) (SLIPS) with exceptional liquid- and ice-repellency, pressure stability and enhanced optical transparency, applicable to various inexpensive, low-surface-energy structured materials (such as porous Teflon membrane).

TL;DR: In this paper, a design approach based on principles derived from Namib desert beetles, cacti, and pitcher plants is proposed to maximize vapour diffusion flux at the apex of convex millimetric bumps by optimizing the radius of curvature and cross-sectional shape.

TL;DR: It is shown that a graded mechanical stimulus can be directly translated into finely tuned, dynamic adjustments of optical transparency and wettability and should make possible the rational design of tunable, multifunctional adaptive materials for a broad range of applications.

TL;DR: Carbonate-silica microstructures in a dynamic reaction-diffusion system are developed that allow us to rationally devise schemes for precisely sculpting a great variety of elementary shapes by diffusion of carbon dioxide in a solution of barium chloride and sodium metasilicate.

TL;DR: Self-regulated, self-reporting secretion systems consisting of liquid-storage compartments in a supramolecular polymer-gel matrix with a thin liquid layer on top are reported, and it is demonstrated that dynamic liquid exchange between the compartments, matrix and surface layer allows repeated, responsive self-lubrication of the surface and cooperative healing of the matrix.