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Engineering biomimetic superhydrophobic surfaces of electrospun nanomaterials
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In this paper, the authors highlighted the recent progress in the design and fabrication of bio-inspired super-hydrophobic surfaces via electrospinning technique and studied the switchable wettability of nanofibrous surface brought about by external stimuli.About:
This article is published in Nano Today.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 405 citations till now.read more
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Ultralight nanofibre-assembled cellular aerogels with superelasticity and multifunctionality
TL;DR: This work reports a novel strategy to create fibrous, isotropically bonded elastic reconstructed (FIBER) NFAs with a hierarchical cellular structure and superelasticity by combining electrospun nanofibres and the fibrous freeze-shaping technique.
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Biomimetic electrospun nanofibrous structures for tissue engineering
TL;DR: This review provides a brief overview of current state-of-the-art research designing and using biomimetic electrospun nanofibers as scaffolds for tissue engineering.
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Superelastic and Superhydrophobic Nanofiber-Assembled Cellular Aerogels for Effective Separation of Oil/Water Emulsions
TL;DR: This work reports a strategy to create fibrous, isotropically bonded elastic reconstructed (FIBER) aerogels with a hierarchical cellular structure and superelasticity by combining electrospun nanofibers and the freeze-shaping technique.
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Biomimetic and Superwettable Nanofibrous Skins for Highly Efficient Separation of Oil-in-Water Emulsions
TL;DR: In this article, a biomimetic and superwettable nanofibrous skin on an electrospun fibrous membrane via a facile strategy of synchronous electrospraying and electrospinning is created.
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Bio-Inspired Titanium Dioxide Materials with Special Wettability and Their Applications
TL;DR: Their Applications Kesong Liu,†,∥ Moyuan Cao,† Akira Fujishima, and Lei Jiang*,†,‡ †Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, PR.
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Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces
TL;DR: It is shown here for the first time that the interdependence between surface roughness, reduced particle adhesion and water repellency is the keystone in the self-cleaning mechanism of many biological surfaces.
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Electrospinning of Nanofibers: Reinventing the Wheel?†
Dan Li,Younan Xia +1 more
TL;DR: An overview of electrospinning can be found in this article, where the authors focus on progress achieved in the last three years and highlight some potential applications associated with the remarkable features of electro-spun nanofibers.
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Super-hydrophobic surfaces: From natural to artificial
Lin Feng,Shuhong Li,Yingshun Li,Huanjun Li,Lingjuan Zhang,Jin Zhai,Yanlin Song,Biqian Liu,Lei Jiang,Daoben Zhu +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a super-hydrophobic surface with both a large contact angle (CA) and a small sliding angle (α) has been constructed from carbon nanotubes.