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Superwicking Surfaces Produced by Femtosecond Laser

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Modifying material wetting properties using femtosecond laser surface nano/microstructuring has recently become an actively studied area due to many promising applications. In this chapter, we overview briefly the newly emerged femtosecond laser-based approaches for modifying the wetting properties of materials and describe recent developments in producing a novel type of surface structures that transform a regular surface of solids to superwicking. This novel type of the surface structure is an array of parallel nanostructured microgrooves. In a gravity defying way, water runs vertically uphill on the created superwicking surfaces. The fast self-propelling motion of the liquid is due to strong capillary force generated in the surface structure. The unique wetting and wicking properties of these novel materials may find a wide range of applications in nano/microfluidics, optofluidics, lab-on-chip technology, fluidic microreactors, chemical sensors, biomedicine, and heat transfer devices (e.g., heat pipes for cooling of electronic devices).

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Vorobyev, A., Guo, C. (2015). Superwicking Surfaces Produced by Femtosecond Laser. In: Shulika, O., Sukhoivanov, I. (eds) Advanced Lasers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 193. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9481-7_7

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