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Extremely stretchable and conductive water-repellent coatings for low-cost ultra-flexible electronics by Mates, Joseph E., Bayer, Ilker S., Palumbo, John M., Carroll, Patrick J., Megaridis, Constantine M.

“…Rapid advances in modern electronics place ever-accelerating demands on innovation towards more robust and versatile functional components. In the flexible…”
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Carbon Nanotubes as Thermally Induced Water Pumps by Oyarzua, Elton, Walther, Jens Honore, Megaridis, Constantine M, Koumoutsakos, Petros, Zambrano, Harvey A

“…Thermal Brownian motors (TBMs) are nanoscale machines that exploit thermal fluctuations to provide useful work. We introduce a TBM-based nanopump which enables…”
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Co-electrospinning of Core−Shell Fibers Using a Single-Nozzle Technique by Bazilevsky, Alexander V, Yarin, Alexander L, Megaridis, Constantine M

“…Co-electrospinning is ideally suited for fabricating continuous fibers encasing materials within a polymer sleeve, but requires relatively complex coannular…”
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Sprayable Superoleophobic Coatings for Pumpless Handling of Low‐Surface‐Tension Liquids by Moitra, Shashwata, Megaridis, Constantine M.

“…Limited attention has been paid to repellency and wettability‐confined transport of low‐surface‐tension liquids, such as oils, alcohols, and hydrocarbons. This…”
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Rapid, Self-driven Liquid Mixing on Open-Surface Microfluidic Platforms by Morrissette, Jared M., Mahapatra, Pallab Sinha, Ghosh, Aritra, Ganguly, Ranjan, Megaridis, Constantine M.

“…Self-driven surface micromixers (SDSM) relying on patterned-wettability technology provide an elegant solution for low-cost, point-of-care (POC) devices and…”
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Morphing and vectoring impacting droplets by means of wettability-engineered surfaces by Schutzius, Thomas M., Graeber, Gustav, Elsharkawy, Mohamed, Oreluk, James, Megaridis, Constantine M.

“…Driven by its importance in nature and technology, droplet impact on solid surfaces has been studied for decades. To date, research on control of droplet…”
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Droplet impact on a wettability‐patterned woven mesh by Catsoulis, Sotiris, Sen, Uddalok, Walther, Jens H., Megaridis, Constantine M.

“…Droplet impact and breakup on meshes are relevant to a number of applications involving filters, textiles, and other spatially inhomogeneous media encountering…”
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Chondrogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells on oriented nanofibrous scaffolds: engineering the superficial zone of articular cartilage by Wise, Joel K, Yarin, Alexander L, Megaridis, Constantine M, Cho, Michael

“…Cell differentiation, adhesion, and orientation are known to influence the functionality of both natural and engineered tissues, such as articular cartilage…”
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A new approach of microbiome monitoring in the built environment: feasibility analysis of condensation capture by Hampton-Marcell, Jarrad T, Ghosh, Aritra, Gukeh, Mohamad Jafari, Megaridis, Constantine M

“…Humans emit approximately 30 million microbial cells per hour into their immediate vicinity. However, sampling of aerosolized microbial taxa (aerobiome)…”
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Water-Based Superhydrophobic Coatings for Nonwoven and Cellulosic Substrates by Mates, Joseph E, Schutzius, Thomas M, Bayer, Ilker S, Qin, Jian, Waldroup, Don E, Megaridis, Constantine M

“…The intense commercial demand for efficient fluid management (e.g., water barriers) has resulted in a recent proliferation of methods intended to impart liquid…”
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Droplet orthogonal impact on nonuniform wettability surfaces by Moitra, Shashwata, Elsharkawy, Mohamed, Russo, Antonio, Sarkar, Sreya, Ganguly, Ranjan, Asinari, Pietro, Megaridis, Constantine M.

“…The vast majority of prior studies on droplet impact have focused on collisions of liquid droplets with spatially homogeneous (i.e., uniform‐wettability)…”
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Observation of Water Confined in Nanometer Channels of Closed Carbon Nanotubes by Naguib, Nevin, Ye, Haihui, Gogotsi, Yury, Yazicioglu, Almila G, Megaridis, Constantine M, Yoshimura, Masahiro

“…We present a method to fill 2−5-nm-diameter channels of closed multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNT) with an aqueous fluid and perform in situ high-resolution…”
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Highly Liquid-Repellent, Large-Area, Nanostructured Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/Poly(ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate) Composite Coatings: Particle Filler Effects by Tiwari, Manish K, Bayer, Ilker S, Jursich, Gregory M, Schutzius, Thomas M, Megaridis, Constantine M

“…Super-repellent nanostructured composite coatings applied over large areas by spray and subsequent thermal treatment are reported. Solution blending of…”
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Wick-free paradigm for high-performance vapor-chamber heat spreaders by Damoulakis, George, Megaridis, Constantine M.

“…(a) Evaporator plate pattern at left and condenser pattern at right, (b) The wettability-pattern design philosophy (pattern coordination), (c) and (d) Working…”
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Importance of Body Stance in Fog Droplet Collection by the Namib Desert Beetle by Chakrabarti, Unmeelan, Paoli, Roberto, Chatterjee, Souvick, Megaridis, Constantine M

“…The fog-basking behavior of the , a beetle species living in the coastal regions of the Namibian desert, has recently caught the attention of the engineering…”
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Enhancing Dropwise Condensation through Bioinspired Wettability Patterning by Ghosh, Aritra, Beaini, Sara, Zhang, Bong June, Ganguly, Ranjan, Megaridis, Constantine M

“…Dropwise condensation (DWC) heat transfer depends strongly on the maximum diameter (D max) of condensate droplets departing from the condenser surface. This…”
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Are Superhydrophobic Surfaces Best for Icephobicity? by Jung, Stefan, Dorrestijn, Marko, Raps, Dominik, Das, Arindam, Megaridis, Constantine M, Poulikakos, Dimos

“…Ice formation can have catastrophic consequences for human activity on the ground and in the air. Here we investigate water freezing delays on untreated and…”
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Experimental investigation of a vapor chamber featuring wettability-patterned surfaces by Koukoravas, Theodore P., Damoulakis, George, Megaridis, Constantine M.

“…[Display omitted] •Wettability-patterned plate replaced condenser wick and wicking posts in water vapor chamber.•Condenser patterns with varying wettable and…”
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Revisiting the supplementary relationship of dynamic contact angles measured by sessile-droplet and captive-bubble methods: Role of surface roughness by Sarkar, Sreya, Roy, Tamal, Roy, Ankit, Moitra, Shashwata, Ganguly, Ranjan, Megaridis, Constantine M.

“…[Display omitted] •CAs of liquid on solid measured with sessile droplet (SD) and captive bubble (CB) methods.•Deviation from the supplementary rule is observed…”
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Ultrafast Propulsion of Water Nanodroplets on Patterned Graphene by Papadopoulou, Ermioni, Megaridis, Constantine M, Walther, Jens H, Koumoutsakos, Petros

“…The directed transport of liquids at the nanoscale is of great importance for nanotechnology applications ranging from water filtration to the cooling of…”
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