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Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces with pressure-stable omniphobicity

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  • Tak-Sing Wong

    (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University)

  • Sung Hoon Kang

    (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University)

  • Sindy K. Y. Tang

    (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University)

  • Elizabeth J. Smythe

    (Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, Schlumberger)

  • Benjamin D. Hatton

    (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University)

  • Alison Grinthal

    (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University)

  • Joanna Aizenberg

    (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University)

Abstract

The surface that hates almost everything Inspired by the insect-eating Nepenthes pitcher plant, which snares its prey on a surface lubricated by a remarkably slippery aqueous secretion, Joanna Aizenberg and colleagues have synthesized omniphobic surfaces that can self-repair and function at high pressures. Their 'slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces' (or SLIPS) exhibit almost perfect slipperiness towards polar, organic and complex liquids. SLIPS function under extreme conditions, are easily constructed from inexpensive materials and can be endowed with other useful characteristics, such as enhanced optical transparency, through the selection of appropriate substrates and lubricants. Ultra-slippery surfaces of this type might find application in biomedical fluid handling, fuel transport, antifouling, anti-icing, optical imaging and elsewhere.

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  • Tak-Sing Wong & Sung Hoon Kang & Sindy K. Y. Tang & Elizabeth J. Smythe & Benjamin D. Hatton & Alison Grinthal & Joanna Aizenberg, 2011. "Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces with pressure-stable omniphobicity," Nature, Nature, vol. 477(7365), pages 443-447, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:477:y:2011:i:7365:d:10.1038_nature10447
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10447
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