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Item Open Access Non-wet kingfisher flying in the rain: the tumble of droplets on moving oriented anisotropic superhydrophobic substrates(American Chemical Society, 2020-07-08) Zheng, Yihua; Zhang, Chengchun; Wang, Jing; Yang, Liang; Shen, Chun; Han, Zhiwu; Liu, YanExtensive studies of antiwetting have been restricted to stationary substrates, while dewetting mechanisms on moving interfaces are still poorly understood. Due to the hydrophobic and anisotropic surface characteristics of kingfishers, they are able to easily change flight direction even under high-intensity precipitation. The present study aims to mechanistically analyze how the synergy of interfacial movement, anisotropy, and superhydrophobicity affects rapid dehydration. We have designed a droplet-conveyor system to simulate the bouncing of droplets on moving anisotropic superhydrophobic targets and performed simulations via the lattice Boltzmann algorithm. The moving interface can induce a directional tumbling behavior of the droplet and effectively avoid continuous wetting in the same region. We found that droplet tumbling is essentially caused by transformed depinning velocity vectors at the interface downstream. Also, the hang time of a tumbling droplet is positively related to the angle between the motion vector and the texture. The oriented anisotropic motion facilitates the tumbling of droplets and decreases their hang time by up to 23% as compared to that on a stationary inclined superhydrophobic surface. Similar interfacial process dehydration also occurs on a nonwet kingfisher flying in the rain, and we believe that these findings provide valuable new insights for high-efficiency water repellency of surfacesItem Open Access Viscoelastic solid-repellent coatings for extreme water saving and global sanitation(Nature Research, 2019-11-18) Wang, Jing; Wang, Lin; Sun, Nan; Tierney, Ross; Li, Hui; Corsetti, Margo; Williams, Leon; Wong, Pak Kin; Wong, Tak-SingWater scarcity threatens over half of the world’s population, yet over 141 billion litres of fresh water are used globally each day for toilet flushing. This is nearly six times the daily water consumption of the population in Africa. The toilet water footprint is so large primarily because large volumes of water are necessary for the removal of human faeces; human faeces is viscoelastic and sticky in nature, causing it to adhere to conventional surfaces. Here, we designed and fabricated the liquid-entrenched smooth surface (LESS)—a sprayable non-fouling coating that can reduce cleaning water consumption by ~90% compared with untreated surfaces due to its extreme repellency towards liquids, bacteria and viscoelastic solids. Importantly, LESS-coated surfaces can repel viscoelastic solids with dynamic viscosities spanning over nine orders of magnitude (that is, three orders of magnitude higher than has previously been reported for other repellent materials). With an estimated 1 billion or more toilets and urinals worldwide, incorporating LESS coating into sanitation systems will have significant implications for global sanitation and large-scale wastewater reduction for sustainable water management.Item Open Access Water entry of slender segmented projectile connected by spring(Elsevier, 2020-09-16) Wu, Zhengyang; Zhang, Chengchun; Wang, Jing; Shen, Chun; Yang, Liang; Ren, LuquanAn object that enters the water experiences a large impact acceleration at the initial stage of water entry, which can cause structural damage to objects that are dropped or launched into the water. To reduce the peak impact acceleration, a spring-connected segmented projectile with compressible nose was designed. Through inertial measurement unit and high-speed camera, the influence of the nose compressibility on the initial impact acceleration was qualitatively investigated. The experimental results demonstrate that the introduction of a spring between the nose and the main body of the projectile can significantly suppresses the peak acceleration during the early stage of impact (0–50 ms). Furthermore, the maximum impact acceleration experienced by the main body is only related to the maximum compression of the nose without considering the spring stiffness. In addition, using the spring exerts a slight effect on the non-dimensional pinch-off times of the cavity but increases the initial velocity required for the occurrence of cavity pinch-off events on the side of the main body