Publications

How oceans were conquered by peppercorn-sized insects: mystery of Halobates (under review)

Authors: L. Cheng, H. Mishra

Effects of Superhydrophobic Sand Mulching on Evapotranspiration and Phenotypic Responses in Tomato (Solanium lycopersicum) Plants Under Normal and Reduced Irrigation (under review)

Year: 2021

Authors: K. Odokonyero, A. Gallo Jr., V. Dos Santos, H. Mishra

The Air–Water Interface of Condensed Water Microdroplets does not Produce H2O2

Year: 2021

Authors: N. Musskopf, A. Gallo Jr., P. Zang, H. Mishra

Zwitterionic layer but do not screen electrified interfaces in dilute solutions (under review)

Year: 2021

Authors: M. Ghifari, B. R. Sreshta, N. Maharjan, H. Mishra

Nature-inspired wax-coated jute bags for reducing post-harvest storage losses (Scientific Reports)

Year: 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93247-z

Authors: K. Odokonyero, A. Gallo Jr., H. Mishra

Bioinspired materials
Chemical modification
Ecophysiology
Environmental sciences
Nanoscale materials
Tropical ecology

How particle–particle and liquid–particle interactions govern the fate of evaporating liquid marbles (Soft Matter)

Year: 2021 ISSN:1744-6848 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SM00750E

Authors: A. Gallo Jr., F. Tavares, R. Das, H. Mishra

Unexpected Suppression of Leidenfrost Phenomenon on Superhydrophobic Surfaces (Under Review)

Year: 2021

Authors: M. Shi, R. Das, S. Arunachalam, H. Mishra

Superhydrophobic Sand Mulches Increase Agricultural Productivity in Arid Regions (Under Review)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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