Large-scale water collection of bioinspired cavity-microfibers

Ye Tian; Pingan Zhu; Xin Tang; Chunmei Zhou; Jianmei Wang; Tiantian Kong; Min Xu; Liqiu Wang

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01157-4

Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Large-scale water collection of bioinspired cavity-microfibers

Ye Tian,
Pingan Zhu,
Xin Tang,
Chunmei Zhou,
Jianmei Wang,
Tiantian Kong,
Min Xu,
Liqiu Wang

Affiliations

Ye Tian: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Pingan Zhu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Xin Tang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Chunmei Zhou: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Jianmei Wang: Center for Transport Phenomenon, Shandong Academy of Sciences
Tiantian Kong: HKU-Zhejiang Institute of Research and Innovation (HKU-ZIRI)
Min Xu: Center for Transport Phenomenon, Shandong Academy of Sciences
Liqiu Wang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01157-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Spider-silk-mimicking microfibers often suffer from low efficiency and durability in water collection. Here, the authors fabricate robust microfibers with spindle cavity-knots and different topological fiber-networks with improved water-collecting performance

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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