A brief description of how superhydrophobicity can help mitigate the ice accretion problem on power network equipment and other exposed structures by reducing ice-tosurface adhesion is presented. Basic models, namely the Wenzel and Cassie–Baxter models, accounting for the contact angle of water on solid surfaces relating to the influence of surface roughness on hydrophobicity are discussed. The...

The merit of various kinds of carbon nanotubes as field electron emission cathode materials has been studied. The field electron emission characteristics of electrophoretically deposited films of single walled carbon nanotubes, multiwalled carbon nanotubes of diameter between 10 and 20 and .50 nm and carbon nanofibres with diameters between 200 and 600 nm were investigated. Results of the measu...

A very thin liquid jets can be obtained using electric fields. The electrically-driven bending instability of the jet enormously increases the jet elongation path and effectively leads to its tinning by very large ratios and can be used to produce nanofibres. The mechanism of electro-thinning of liquid jets, discovered almost one century ago, is yet not fully understood. In the following study ...

The fabrication of optically active inorganic nanomaterials with chiral superstructures attracts attention because of their potential applications in chemical sensing and non-linear optics. Here, we present a facile way to prepare TiO2 nanofibres, in which the nanocrystals are helically arranged into a chiral superstructure. Notably, the chiral superstructure shows strong optical activity due t...

Miniemulsion polymerization technique has been used extensively for preparing small sized uniform particles of polymers, core-shell polymer particles, hybrid particles and encapsulation of liquid core. The technique has achieved limited success in the area of uniform core shell structure with liquid as core, as it requires matching of strict thermodynamic and kinetic factors. The interfacial te...