TY - GEN
T1 - Nature-Inspired Surfaces for Water-Energy Nexus
AU - Xu, Wanghuai
AU - Wang, Zuankai
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 5 59 2 , Research rG ants Council of Hong Kong (No. C100-20WF, No. 112 03 ).
Funding Information:
We acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51975502).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/6/20
Y1 - 2021/6/20
N2 - Water is the origin of life and energy. Despite its ubiquity and seeming simplicity, the water is probably the least understood matter in the world. The phase transition, transport, and manipulation, normally spanning different time and length scales, constitute the basic paradigm of numerous biological systems and industrial processes. Over the past decade, the advances in nature-inspired surfaces provide new dimensions in the fundamental understandings and control of interfacial and transport phenomena of water, especially on ured surfaces and under complicated working environments. This work discusses recent innovations at the nature-inspired surfaces and interfaces to address one of the most important challenges facing us today, i.e., water-energy nexus. In particular, We highlight how the rational design and control of topological structures enables us to fundamentally change the liquid-solid interaction and improve the water kinetic energy harvesting efficiency from various forms of water.
AB - Water is the origin of life and energy. Despite its ubiquity and seeming simplicity, the water is probably the least understood matter in the world. The phase transition, transport, and manipulation, normally spanning different time and length scales, constitute the basic paradigm of numerous biological systems and industrial processes. Over the past decade, the advances in nature-inspired surfaces provide new dimensions in the fundamental understandings and control of interfacial and transport phenomena of water, especially on ured surfaces and under complicated working environments. This work discusses recent innovations at the nature-inspired surfaces and interfaces to address one of the most important challenges facing us today, i.e., water-energy nexus. In particular, We highlight how the rational design and control of topological structures enables us to fundamentally change the liquid-solid interaction and improve the water kinetic energy harvesting efficiency from various forms of water.
KW - Nature-inspired surface
KW - water-energy nexus
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U2 - 10.1109/Transducers50396.2021.9495644
DO - 10.1109/Transducers50396.2021.9495644
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85114963732
T3 - 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2021
SP - 501
EP - 504
BT - 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2021
Y2 - 20 June 2021 through 25 June 2021
ER -