Tuning surface wettability through photocontrolled reversible molecular shuttle.

LED-controlled tuning of ZnO nanowires’ wettability for biosensing applications

BACKGROUND Wettability is an important property of solid materials which can be controlled by surface energy. Dynamic control over the surface wettability is of great importance for biosensing applications. Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a biocompatible material suitable for biosensors and microfluidic devices. Nanowires of ZnO tend to show a hydrophobic nature which decelerates the adhesion or adsorption...

Electrochemical and chemical tuning of the surface wettability of tetrathiafulvalene self-assembled monolayers.

The tuning of the surface wettability of self-assembled monolayers of two novel tetrathiafulvalenes has been achieved by electrochemical and chemical means.

Wettability of boron monolayer using molecular dynamics simulation method

Over the past years, two-dimensional materials such as graphene, phosphorene, silicene, and boron-nitride have attracted the attention of many researchers. After the successful synthesis of graphene, due to its many new applications, researches began to produce nanosheets from other elements, and among these elements, boron was one of the options. In the periodic table of elements, boron is ahe...

Control of surface wettability via strain engineering

Reversible control of surface wettability has wide applications in lab-on-chip systems, tunable optical lenses, and microfluidic tools. Using a graphene sheet as a sample material and molecular dynamic simulations, we demonstrate that strain engineering can serve as an effective way to control the surface wettability. The contact angles θ of water droplets on a graphene vary from 72.5◦ to 106◦ ...

Photocontrolled Reversible Dimensional Changes of Microstructured Photochromic Polymers