Marangoni Effect Enabling Autonomously Miniatured Swimmers: Mechanisms, Design Strategy, and Applications
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DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202424235
Abstract: Miniature swimmers hold considerable potential for precision tasks in the confined environments, yet challenges persist with a simple, sustained, and controllable actuation for their large‐scale applications in real‐world scenarios. Marangoni‐propelled miniature swimmers (MPMSs), leveraging surface‐tension‐gradient‐driven… read more here.
Keywords: marangoni effect; effect; surface tension; effect enabling ... See more keywords
Design of Fluoro-Free Surfaces Super-Repellent to Low Surface Tension Liquids.
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DOI: 10.1002/adma.202300306
Abstract: Super liquid repellent surfaces feature high liquid contact angles and low sliding angles, finding key applications in anti-fouling and self-cleaning. While repellency for water is easily achieved with hydrocarbon functionalities, repellency for many low surface… read more here.
Keywords: tension liquids; surface; surface tension; liquid ... See more keywords
Electrochemically and Mechanically Regulated Liquid Metal Gate via Giant Surface Tension Alteration
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DOI: 10.1002/admi.202100954
Abstract: Liquid gates can provide an effective method to control the release of substances. However, the size of liquid gates and the control methods limit their broad applications. The controllable large deformation of liquid metals (LMs)… read more here.
Keywords: gate; liquid; tension alteration; surface tension ... See more keywords
Measurements and correlations for gas liquid surface tension at high pressure and high temperature
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DOI: 10.1002/aic.16216
Abstract: Surface tension of water/nitrogen and water-phenol/nitrogen systems was successfully measured by the hanging drop method in a wide domain of temperature (from 100 to 300°C) and pressure (from 4 to 30MPa), conditions little explored literature.… read more here.
Keywords: nitrogen; water; surface tension; tension ... See more keywords
Research on the performances of VPEG macromonomer grafted different functional groups to prepare polycarboxylate superplasticizers
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DOI: 10.1002/app.55325
Abstract: The advent of novel polyether macromonomer has garnered significant attention within the industrial domain. In this study, a range of polycarboxylate superplasticizers (PCEs) was produced via free radical polymerization, employing a new polyether monomer, 4‐hydroxybutyl… read more here.
Keywords: vpeg macromonomer; functional groups; surface tension; research ... See more keywords
Improvement and validation of a computational model of flow in the swirling well cell culture model.
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DOI: 10.1002/bit.27951
Abstract: Effects of fluid dynamics on cells are often studied by growing the cells on the base of cylindrical wells or dishes that are swirled on the horizontal platform of an orbital shaker. The swirling culture… read more here.
Keywords: computational model; swirling well; model; surface tension ... See more keywords
Effects of Surface Tension Driven Convection Upon Crystal Growth of KTa1‐xNbxO3
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DOI: 10.1002/crat.201700161
Abstract: The surface tension driven convection, together with the rotating crystal growth process of potassium tantalate niobate (KTa1-xNbxO3, KTN) crystals from unstirred melt has been carried out in a high temperature in-situ observation system. The streamline… read more here.
Keywords: crystal growth; tension driven; convection; surface tension ... See more keywords
The Surface Activity of Surfactants at Liquid Interfaces: The Role of CMC, Decrease in Surface Tension, HLB, Thermodynamic Adsorption Models
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DOI: 10.1002/jsde.12902
Abstract: For all applications in which interfaces play a significant role, surface‐active agents (surfactants) can play an essential role. The selection of the most suitable surfactant is essential but it is not a simple task. Depending… read more here.
Keywords: surface activity; role; surface tension; surface ... See more keywords
Artificial Erythrocytes Created by Vesicle Deformation Induced by Inhomogeneous Surface Tension During Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly.
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DOI: 10.1002/smll.202500647
Abstract: Although artificial oxygen carriers have been extensively developed, successful mimicry of erythrocytes in both morphology and oxygen-binding properties has rarely been achieved. Herein, biconcave disc-shaped vesicles (BDVs) with oxygen-binding capacity are created as artificial erythrocytes… read more here.
Keywords: inhomogeneous surface; polymerization induced; induced self; surface tension ... See more keywords
Viscosity, Density, Surface Tension, and Crystallization Behavior of Commercial Mold Fluxes
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DOI: 10.1002/srin.202400103
Abstract: This study investigates the viscosity, density, surface tension, and crystallization behavior of two commercial mold fluxes that are utilized to cast ultralow‐carbon, low‐carbon, and medium‐carbon steel grades, as well as electric steels (high‐B magnetic and… read more here.
Keywords: density surface; viscosity density; mold fluxes; surface tension ... See more keywords
Effects of surface tension on the nanoindentation with a conical indenter
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DOI: 10.1007/s00707-017-1901-9
Abstract: In the present paper, the nanoindentation of an elastic half-space by a conical indenter is investigated with the influence of surface tension. Based on the solution of a point force acting on an elastic half-space… read more here.
Keywords: tension; nanoindentation; surface tension; conical indenter ... See more keywords