Publications

On the Billion-fold Retardation of Underwater Cassie-to-Wenzel Transitions: Effects of Doubly Reentrant Profile, Surface Make-up, and Hydrostatic Pressure

Year: 2020

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

Year: 2020

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

This article was featured in KAUST Discovery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Hydrophobic Nanoconfinement

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

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

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

First-principles Based Rationally Designed Materials for the Removal of Methylene Blue from Wastewaters

Year: 2019

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

Density functional theory
physiosorption
Methylene blue

Superhydrophobic Sand Mulches Increase Productivity and Reduce Water Demand in Dryland Agriculture

Year: 2019

Authors: Gallo Jr., A., Reihmer, J., Mousa, M. A. A., Morton, M. J. L., Al-Mashharawi, S., McCabe, M. F., R. Marasco, Daffonchio, D., Tester, M., Mishra, H.*

Sand
Superhrophobic
Agriculture

Electrification at Water-Hydrophobe Interfaces

Year: 2019

Authors: Nauruzbayeva, J., Sun, Z., Gallo Jr., A., Ibrahim, M., Santamarina, J. C., Mishra, H.*

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

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

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

Biomimetic Coatings-free Surfaces for Long-term Entrapment of Air Under Wetting Liquids

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

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

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

Superhydrophobicity
Water striders
Halobates

Assessing Omniphobicity by Immersion

Year: 2018

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

omniphobicity
Contact angles
Immersion
Underwater
Wetting
Textured surfaces

Evaluating the Potential of Superhydrophobic Nanoporous Alumina Membranes for Direct Contact Membrane Distillation

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

Doubly Reentrant Cavities Prevent Catastrophic Wetting Transitions on Intrinsically Wetting Surfaces

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

Wetting of Water on Graphene

Year: 2016

Authors: Bijoyendra Bera, Noushine Shahidzadeh, Himanshu Mishra, Liubov A. Belyaeva, Gregory F. Schneider, Daniel Bonn

Wetting
Graphene

Piston-type Imbibition at High Contact Angles Drives Incremental Oil Recovery in Carbonates

Year: 2016

Authors: T. W. Patzek, C. Radke, M. Yutkin, H. Mishra

Enhanced oil recovery
capillarity
contract angle hysteresis

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