Wetting Anisotropy

In recent years, polymorphic transformation involved in media milling has become a key factor in inducing the instability of nanosuspensions (NSs). The variation trend of microhydrodynamic parameters, including milling intensity factor (F), can be observed under different milling conditions. Therefore, this study first referenced the microhydrodynamic model to explore how formulations and process parameters affect Irbesartan (IRB) form A crystallinity during wet media milling. As a result, the crystallinity of form A was affected by the intermolecular interactions between drug particles and stabilizers...

This paper presents a novel experimental approach to in-situ study of atmospheric phenomena such as nucleation scavenging by biological seeds, bio-droplet dehydration, and bioaerosol's particle scavenging by raindrops. Our methodology is based on the analysis of the dynamical changes of fluorescence signal. We use a remote sensing system based on a homebuilt hyperspectral laser induced fluorescence (LIF) Lidar to measure the transient back-fluorescence and backscattering signals. The spectral line shape of the transient fluorescence associated with an aerosolized tryptophan solution was first analyzed in the laboratory...

As a p-type elemental material with high carrier mobility, superior ambient stability, and anisotropic crystal structure, emerging two-dimensional (2D) tellurium (Te) has been considered a successor to black phosphorus for developing infrared-related optoelectronics. Nevertheless, the lack of a scalable thickness engineering strategy remains an obstacle to unleashing its full potential. Te-based electronics with logic functions are also less explored. Herein, we propose a novel wet-chemical thinning method for 2D Te, with the merits of scalability and site-specific thickness patterning capability...

Helical swimming is adopted by microswimming robots since it is an efficient mechanism and commonly observed among microorganisms swimming at low Reynolds numbers. However, manufacturing of micro helices made of sub-micron magnetic thin layers is neither straightforward nor well-established, advanced materials and methods are necessary to obtain such structures as reported in the literature. In this paper, a topological patterning method utilizing basic microfabrication methods is presented for the self-assembly of magnetic micro helices made of a sandwiched nickel thin film (50-150 nm) between two silicon nitride layers...

We demonstrate the control of wettability of non-structured and microstructured magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) by magnetic field. The synthesized composite materials have a concentration of carbonyl iron particles of 75 wt.% (≈27 vol.%) and three different stiffnesses of the elastomer matrix. A new method of fabrication of MAE coatings on plastic substrates is presented, which allows one to enhance the response of the apparent contact angle to the magnetic field by exposing the particle-enriched side of MAEs to water...

Exploration of high-performance electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials has become a trend to address the increasing electromagnetic (EM) wave pollution environment. In this paper, oriented graphene fibre film (GFF)/polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) nanocomposites with one-ply unidirectional, two-ply cross-ply, and two-ply unidirectional configurations were prepared using wet-spinning and hot-pressing techniques in a two-step process. Due to the anisotropic electrical performance of GFF, the one-ply laminate exhibits EMI shielding anisotropy that is affected by fibre orientation relative to the electric field component in EM waves...

Hierarchical anisotropy structure directing 3D cellular orientation plays a crucial role in designing tendon tissue engineering scaffolds. Despite recent development of fabrication technologies for controlling cellular organization and design of scaffolds that mimic the anisotropic structure of native tendon tissue, improvement of tenogenic differentiation remains challenging. Herein, we present 3D aligned poly (ε-caprolactone) nanofiber yarns (NFYs) of varying diameter, fabricated using a dry-wet electrospinning approach, that integrate with nano- and micro-scale structure to mimic the hierarchical structure of collagen fascicles and fibers in native tendon tissue...

Smart surfaces with tunable wettability are promising due to their abilities to create diversified functionalities that the fixed surfaces cannot provide. However, limited by imprecise adjustment of structural geometry and almost conventional switching modes of wettability, it is still challenging to achieve the reversible switching between multiple wetting states. Herein, a novel tri-switchable wettability surface with an in situ switching ability is used for the manipulation of a given droplet, which consists of a stretchable substrate and a micron column array...

Plantation-grown Eucalyptus nitens ( E. nitens ) has been grown predominantly for the pulp and paper industry. In this study, the suitability of E. nitens as a structural material is examined using static tensile tests in a universal testing machine. The anisotropic tensile behaviour of 240 Eucalyptus nitens small clear wood samples with a diversity of grain angles was examined in both dry and wet conditions. The samples had a highly anisotropic tensile characterisation in the context of both a low moisture content ( MC = 12%) and a high moisture content ( MC > its fibre saturation point, FSP )...

Surface wrinkling is closely linked to a significant number of surface functionalities such as wetting, structural colour, tribology, frictions, biological growth and more. Given its ubiquity in nature's surfaces and that most material formation processes are driven by self-assembly and self-organization and many are formed by fibrous composites or analogues of liquid crystals, in this work, we extend our previous theory and modeling work on in silico biomimicking nanowrinkling using chiral liquid crystal surface physics by including higher-order anisotropic surface tension nonlinearities...

Biological tissues usually have complex superstructures and elaborated functionalities. However, creating superstructures in soft and wet hydrogels is challenging because of the absence of effective approaches to control the molecular orientation. Here we introduce a method to create superstructures in photonic hydrogels comprising lamellar bilayers intercalated in the cross-linked polymer network. The orientation of lamellar bilayers in the photonic gel, which are sensitive to shear, is modulated by applying a gradient shear field on the precursor solution using a customized rheometer...

In this work, we develop single-mode fiber devices of an InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) by bonding a fiber array with large smooth facet, small core, and small numerical aperture to QDs in a distributed Bragg reflector planar cavity with vertical light extraction that prove mode overlap and efficient output for plug-and-play stable use and extensive study. Modulated Si doping as electron reservoir builds electric field and level tunnel coupling to reduce fine-structure splitting (FSS) and populate dominant XX and higher excitons XX+ and XXX...

The continuum model related to the Winterbottom problem , i.e., the problem of determining the equilibrium shape of crystalline drops resting on a substrate, is derived in dimension two by means of a rigorous discrete-to-continuum passage by <mml:math xmlns:mml="https://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>Γ</mml:mi></mml:math> -convergence of atomistic models taking into consideration the atomic interactions of the drop particles both among themselves and with the fixed substrate atoms...

Wetting and drying phenomena are studied for flexible and semiflexible polymer solutions via coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations. This study is based on the use of Young's equation for the contact angle, determining all relevant surface tensions from the anisotropy of the pressure tensor. The solvent quality (or effective temperature, equivalently) is varied systematically, while all other interactions remain unaltered. For flexible polymers, the wetting transition temperature Tw increases monotonically with chain length N, while the contact angle at temperatures far below Tw is independent of N...

HYPOTHESIS: Wetting characterization and the production of engineered surfaces showing distinct contact angles or spreading behavior is of major importance for many industrial and scientific applications. As chemical composition plays a major role in the wetting behavior of flat samples, wettability, capillary forces and resulting droplet spreading on anisotropic surface patterns are expected to be highly dependent on surface chemistry as well. EXPERIMENTS: To gain understanding of the fundamental principles of the interplay between surface topography and surface chemistry regarding water wettability, anisotropic line patterns were produced on steel samples in a direct laser writing process...

Large-scale molecular dynamic simulations were conducted to study anisotropic wettability on one-dimensional (1D) nanopatterned surfaces. Hexadecane (C16 H34 ) and decane (C10 H22 ) nanodroplets were used as wetting liquids. Initially, surfaces with various intrinsic wettability (oleophobic and oleophilic) were produced using surface lattice size as a control parameter. These surfaces were subsequently patterned with 1D grooves of different sizes, and their anisotropic wettability was examined. The results show that anisotropic wettability strongly depends on intrinsic surface wettability and surface morphology...

Nanocrystal formulations of the BCS class II agomelatine, were developed by wet media milling. The most suitable stabilizer was identified and effects of process and formulation variables on the nanocrystal size and ζ-potential were evaluated employing a Box-Behnken experimental design. The optimized nanosuspensions were dried and subsequently evaluated for redispersibility and physicochemical properties. Computational simulation of solid state properties was applied to rationalize crystal fracture. It was found that low viscosity hydroxypropylcellulose with sodium dodecyl sulfate is the most suitable stabilizer...

Chiral plasmonic nanomaterials have attracted unprecedented attention due to their broad applications in biomedicine, negative refractive index, and chiral sensing. Here, using a wet-chemistry process, chiral triangular Au nanorings are fabricated with a platinum (Pt) framework (l/d-Pt@Au triangular nanorings, named l/d-Pt@Au TNRs). The l/d-Pt@Au TNRs exhibit strong optical activity with a g-factor of 0.023 and can be used effectively for the discrimination of enantiomers due to selective resonance coupling between the induced electric and magnetic dipoles associated with enantiomers and the chiral plasmonic TNRs, also known as the surface-enhanced Raman scattering-chiral anisotropy (SERS-ChA) effect...

This paper investigates the physical and mechanical properties of bighorns of Deccani breed sheep native from Karnataka, India. The exhaustive work comprises two cases. First, rehydrated (wet) and ambient (dry) conditions, and second, the horn coupons were selected for longitudinal and lateral (transverse) directions. More than seventy-two samples were subjected to a test for physical and mechanical property extraction. Further, twenty-four samples were subjected to physical property testing, which included density and moisture absorption tests...

OBJECTIVES: The liquid-solid interactions have attracted broad interest since solid surfaces can either repel or attract fluids, configuring a wide spectrum of wetting states (from superhydrophilicity to superhydrophobicity). Since the blood-artificial surface interaction of bileaflet mechanical heart valves essentially represents a liquid-solid interaction, we analysed the thrombogenicity of mechanical heart valve prostheses from innovative perspectives. The aim of the present study was to modify the surface wettability of standard St...