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Slippery lubricant-infused surfaces exhibit excellent fog-harvesting capacities compared with superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces. However, lubricant depletion is typically unavoidable under dynamic conditions, and reinfused oil is generally needed to recover the fog-harvesting capacity. Herein, an effective strategy for delaying the depletion of lubricant to prolong the service life of fog harvesting is proposed. An ultrathin transparent lubricant self-replenishing slippery surface was fabricated via facile one-step solvent evaporation polymerization. The gel film of the lubricant self-replenishing slippery surface, which was embedded with oil microdroplets, was attached to glass slides via the phase separation and evaporation of tetrahydrofuran. The gel film GFs-150 (with oil content 150 wt% of aminopropyl-terminated polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS-NH2)) exhibited superior slippery and fog-harvesting performance to other gel films. Furthermore, the slippery surfaces with the trait of oil secretion triggered by mechanical stress exhibited better fog-harvesting capabilities and longer service life than surfaces without the function of lubricant self-replenishment. The lubricant self-replenishing, ultrathin, and transparent slippery surfaces reported herein have considerable potential for applications involving narrow spaces, visualization, long service life, etc.
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Yi CHEN. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), under the supervision of Prof. Zhiguang GUO. She received her B.S. degree (2016) and M.S. degree (2019) in North University of China (NUC) under the supervision of Prof. Chenyang XUE. Her current scientific interests are focused on liquid-infused surfaces and its application.
Jinxia HUANG. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 2015. After that, she joined Prof. Guo’s Biomimetic Materials of Tribology (BMT) group in LICP. Her current scientific interests are focused on the biomimetic materials of tribology and its application.
Zhiguang GUO. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 2007. After that, he joined Hubei University. From Oct. 2007 to Aug. 2008, he worked in University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium, as a post-doctor. From Sept. 2008 to Mar. 2011, he worked in the Funds of National Research Science (FNRS), Belgium, as a “Charge de Researcher”. During Feb. 2009–Feb. 2010, he worked in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK, as a visiting scholar. Now he is a full professor and the dean of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hubei University. His current scientific interests are focused on the biomimetic materials of tribology and its application.
Weimin LIU. He received his Ph.D. degree in lubricating materials and tribology from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 1990. After that, he joined the State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication (LSL) of the LICP. From June 1993 to June 1994, he worked as a visiting scholar at Pennsylvania State University, USA. In 2013 and 2016, he was elected the member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Currently, he is a professor of the LICP and the head of the State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication. His research interests mainly focus on space and aviation lubrication, high performance lubricating materials and tribochemistry.
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Chen, Y., Liu, W., Huang, J. et al. Lubricant self-replenishing slippery surface with prolonged service life for fog harvesting. Friction 10, 1676–1692 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-021-0533-1
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