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Counterintuitive Wetting Transitions in Doubly Reentrant Cavities as a Function of Surface Make-up, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Cavity Aspect Ratio (Advanced Materials Interfaces)

Year: 2020 DOI:10.1002/admi.202001268

Authors: Sankara Arunachalam, Zain Ahmad, Ratul Das, Himanshu Mishra

Doubly reentrant cavities
simple cavities
wetting transitions
Underwater
hydrostatic pressure
capillary condensation
diffusion
breakthrough pressure

Electrification at Water-Hydrophobe Interfaces (Nature Communications)

Year: 2020

Authors: Jamilya Nauruzbayeva, Zhonghao Sun, Adair Gallo Jr, Mahmoud Ibrahim, J. Carlos Santamarina, Himanshu Mishra

This article was featured in KAUST Discovery and in Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights.

water-hydrophobic interfaces
electrification
hydrophobicity
electrical double layer
adsorption of ions
uniform electric fields
electrometer
pendant drops
Debye lengths

Biomimetic Coating-free Superomniphobicity (Scientific Reports)

Year: 2020

Authors: Das, R., Ahmad, Z., Nauruzbayeva, J., & Mishra, H.*.

Biomimetics
Mushroom-shaped pillars
doubly reentrant pillars
Gas-entrapping microtextured surfaces
Superomniphobicity
Superhydrophobicity
Superoleophobicity
Two-photon polymerization
Additive manufacturing
Contact angle hysteresis

A Molecular to Macro-scale Assessment of Direct Contact Membrane Distillation for Separating Organics from Water (Journal of Membrane Science)

Year: 2020

Authors: S. Pillai, A. Santana, R. Das, B. R. Sreshta, E. Manalastas, H. Mishra

Direct contact membrane distillation
organic fouling
hydrophobic membranes
hydrophobic interactions
organics

Rendering SiO2/Si surfaces omniphobic by carving gas-entrapping microtextures comprising reentrant and doubly reentrant cavities or pillars (Journal of Visualised Experiments)

Year: 2020

Authors: Arunachalam, S., Domingues, E. M., Das, R., Nauruzbayeva, J., Buttner, U., Syed, A., and Mishra, H.*.

Wetting
omniphobicity
Reentrant and doubly reentrant cavities/pillars
Gas-entrapping microtextures (GEMs)
Photolithography
Isotropic etching
Anisotropic etching
Thermal oxide growth
Reactive-ion etching
Contact angles
Immersion

Proof-of-Concept for Gas-Entrapping Membranes Derived from Water-Loving SiO2/Si/SiO2 Wafers for Green Desalination (Journal of Visualised Experiments)

Year: 2020

Authors: Das, R., Arunachalam, S., Ahmad, Z., Buttner, U., Syed, A. and Mishra, H.*

Perfluorocarbon-free membranes
Photolithography
Reactive-ion etching
Contact angles
Textured surfaces
Wetting

Superhydrophobic Sand Mulches Increase Agricultural Productivity in Arid Regions

Year: 2020

Authors: Adair Gallo Jr, Kennedy Odokonyero, Magdi A. A. Mousa, Joel Reihmer, Samir Al-Mashharawi, Ramona Marasco, Mitchell J. L. Morton, Daniele Daffonchio, Matthew F. McCabe, Mark Tester, Himanshu Mishra

Sand
Superhrophobic
Agriculture

A first‐principles approach for treating wastewaters (International Journal of Quantum Chemistry)

Year: 2020

Authors: Santana, A., Farinha, A. S. F., Torano, A. Z., Ibrahim, M., Mishra, H.*

Front cover of the journal.

Density functional theory
physiosorption
Methylene blue

Mitigating Cavitation Through a Biomimetic Gas-entrapping Microtextured Surfaces (Science advances)

Year: 2020

Authors: Gonzalez-Avila, S. R., Nguyen, D. M., Arunachalam, S., Domingues, E., Mishra, H.*, Ohl, C-D.

Cavitation bubbles and jets
coatings
omniphobicity
biomimetrics
Underwater
marine
capillarity
bubble nucleation and collapse

Superhydrophobicity and size reduction enabled Halobates (Insecta: Heteroptera, Gerridae) to colonize the open ocean (Scientific Reports)

Year: 2020

Authors: Gauri A. Mahadik, Jose F. Hernández Sánchez, Sankara Arunachalam, Adair Gallo Junior, Lanna Cheng, Andreia S. Farinha, Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen, Himanshu Mishra, Carlos M. Duarte

This article was featured in KAUST Discovery

Superhydrophobicity
Water striders
Halobates

Bio-inspired Gas-entrapping Membranes (GEMs) Derived from Common Water-wet Materials for Green Desalination (Journal of Membrane Science)

Year: 2019

Authors: Das, R., Arunachalam, S., Ahmad, Z., Manalastas, E., & Mishra, H.

This article was featured in KAUST Discovery, EurekAlert! and Phys.org

Green desalination
membrane distillation
Perfluorocarbon-free
Wetting and non-wetting materials
Biometrics
Reentrant textures
Mass transfer
Heat transfer

The chemical reactions in electrosprays of water do not always correspond to those at the pristine air–water interface (Chemical Science)

Year: 2019

Authors: Gallo Adair, Andreia SF Farinha, Miguel Dinis, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Adriano Santana, Robert J. Nielsen, William A. Goddard, And Himanshu Mishra

This article was featured in KAUST Discovery.
Front cover of the journal.

air-water interface
aqueous electrosprays
isoprene

Reply to the ‘Comment on “The chemical reactions in electrosprays of water do not always correspond to those at the pristine air–water interface”’ (Chemical Science)

Year: 2019

Authors: Gallo Adair, Andreia SF Farinha, Miguel Dinis, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Adriano Santana, Robert J. Nielsen, William A. Goddard, And Himanshu Mishra

air-water interface
aqueous electrosprays
isoprene

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Hydrophobic Nanoconfinement (The journal of physical chemistry letters)

Year: 2019

Authors: Shrestha, B. R., Pillai, S., Santana, A., Donaldson, Jr., S. H., Pascal, T. A., Mishra, H.*

This article was featured in KAUST Discovery and Phys.org.

Hydrophobic forces

Evaluating the Potential of Superhydrophobic Nanoporous Alumina Membranes for Direct Contact Membrane Distillation (Journal of Colloid and Interface Science)

Year: 2018

Authors: Navaladian Subramanian, Adnan Qamar, Ahmad Alsaadi, Adair Gallo Jr, Muhammed Ghifari, Jung-Gil Lee, Sreekiran Pillai, Sankara Arunachalam, Dalaver Anjum, Felix Sharipov, Noreddine Ghaffour

air-water interface
membrane distillation

Assessing Omniphobicity by Immersion (Journal of Colloid and Interface Science)

Year: 2018

Authors: Sankara Arunachalam, Ratul Das, Jamilya Nauruzbayeva, Eddy M. Domingues, Himanshu Mishra

omniphobicity
Contact angles
Immersion
Underwater
Wetting
Textured surfaces

Biomimetic Coatings-free Surfaces for Long-term Entrapment of Air Under Wetting Liquids (Nature Communications)

Year: 2018

Authors: Eddy M. Domingues, Sankara Arunachalam, Jamilya Nauruzbayeva, Himanshu Mishra

This article was featured at Nature Research Chemistry Community and KAUST Discovery

Bio-inspiration
trapped air
Doubly reentrant cavities
Reentrant Cavities
circular and non-circular cavities
wetting transitions
underwater hydrophobicity
liquid imbibition
capillary condensation
diffusion of gases in liquids
omniphobic surfaces

Doubly Reentrant Cavities Prevent Catastrophic Wetting Transitions on Intrinsically Wetting Surfaces (ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)

Year: 2017

Authors: Eddy Domingues, Sankara Arunachalam, And Himanshu Mishra

This article was featured at Engineers Australia, EurekAlert!, Phys.org and KAUST Discovery

Doubly reentrant cavities
omniphobicity
wetting transition
trapped gases
liquid imbibition
capillary condensation
airborne contaminants
underwater hydrophobicity

Simple-to-Apply Wetting Model to Predict Thermodynamically Stable and Metastable Contact Angles on Textured/Rough/Patterned Surfaces (The Journal of Physical Chemistry C)

Year: 2016

Authors: Y. Kaufman, S-Y. Chen, H. Mishra, A. M. Schrader, D. W. Lee, S. Das, S. H. Donaldson, Jr., and J. N. Israelachvili

Wetting Model
Reentrant Cavities

Bulk and Surface Aqueous Speciation of Calcite: Implications for Low-Salinity Waterflooding of Carbonate Reservoirs (Soceity of Petroleum Engineers)

Year: 2016

Authors: M. P. Yutkin, J. Y. Lee, H. Mishra, C. J. Radke, T. W. Patzek*

Calcite
Carbonate Reservoirs

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