• Anti-Gas Hydrate Surfaces: Perspectives, Progress and Prospects 

      Wang, Feng; Ma, Rui; Xiao, Senbo; English, Niall; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Mitigating gas-hydrate formation and the subsequent gas-pipeline plugging is of critical importance for ensuring both flow assurance and safety in the exploration and transportation of deep-water resources. Until now, ...
    • Breathable Nanowood Biofilms as Guiding Layer for Green On‐Skin Electronics 

      Zhou, Tianle; Wang, jinwen; Huang, Ming; An, Rong; Tan, Huaping; Wei, Hao; Chen, Zheng-Dong; Wang, Xin; Liu, Xiaoheng; Wang, Feng; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Thin‐film electronics are urged to be directly laminated onto human skin for reliable, sensitive biosensing together with feedback transdermal therapy, their self‐power supply using the thermoelectric and moisture‐induced‐electric ...
    • Design and preparation of icephobic PDMS-based coatings by introducing an aqueous lubricating layer and macro-crack initiators at the ice-substrate interface 

      He, Zhiwei; Zhuo, Yizhi; Wang, Feng; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Preventing ice accretion on exposed surfaces is important to the operational performance of various facilities and devices. As time elapses and temperature lowers sufficiently, ice accretion becomes inevitable. Herein, we ...
    • Dynamic anti-icing surfaces (DAIS) 

      Wang, Feng (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:330, Doctoral thesis, 2020)
      Icing is one of the most ubiquitous natural phenomena accompanying human activities. Undesired ice generation and accretion are extremely hazardous to aircrafts, ships, electrical transmission cables, wind turbines, motor ...
    • Dynamic anti-icing surfaces (DAIS) 

      Wang, Feng; Zhuo, Yizhi; He, Zhiwei; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Remarkable progresses have been made in surface icephobicity in the recent years. The mainstream standpoint of the reported anti-icing surfaces yet only considers the ice-substrate interface and its adjacent regions being ...
    • Effect of heat input on nanomechanical properties of wire-arc additive manufactured Al 4047 alloys 

      Liu, Siqi; Wan, Di; Peng, Ding; Lu, Xu; Ren, Xiaobo; Fu, Yuequn; Wang, Feng; Li, Yanjun; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Heat input is one of the most important process parameters during additive manufacturing (AM). It is of great significance to understand the effect of heat input on the microstructure and nanomechanical properties, as well ...
    • Enabling phase transition of infused lubricant in porous structure for exceptional oil/water separation 

      Wang, Feng; Luo, Sihai; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Wenjing; Zhuo, Yizhi; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The fundamental mechanism behind oil/water separation materials is their surface wettability that allows either oil or water to pass through. The conventional materials for oil/water separation generally have extreme ...
    • Enabling Sequential Rupture for Lowering Atomistic Ice Adhesion 

      Xiao, Senbo; Skallerud, Bjørn Helge; Wang, Feng; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      State-of-the-art passive icephobicity relies mainly on static parameters such as surface energy, coating elastic modulus, crack sizes and so on. Low ice adhesion resulting from dynamic de-icing process, for instance ice ...
    • Gels as emerging anti-icing materials: a mini review 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Chen, Jianhua; Xiao, Senbo; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Gel materials have drawn great attention recently in the anti-icing research community due to their remarkable potentials for reducing ice adhesion, inhibiting ice nucleation, and restricting ice propagation. Although the ...
    • High strength polymer/silicon nitride composites for dental restorations 

      Wang, Feng; Guo, Jingshu; Li, Ke; Sun, Jian; Zeng, Yuping; Ning, Congqin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Objectives To fabricate polymer-infiltrated silicon nitride composite (PISNC) and evaluate the potential of PISNC in dental application. Methods Porous silicon nitride (Si3N4) ceramics were fabricated through gelcasting ...
    • Liquid layer generator for excellent icephobicity at extremely low temperature 

      Wang, Feng; Xiao, Senbo; Zhuo, Yizhi; Ding, Wenwu; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Progress in icephobicity has been made in recent years. However, the majority of the icephobic surfaces reported are relying on mechanisms of static nature, and maintaining low ice adhesion of these surfaces at extreme ...
    • One-Step Fabrication of Bioinspired Lubricant-Regenerable Icephobic Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Wang, Feng; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Icephobic coating and surfaces are essential for protecting infrastructures such as transmission lines, transportation vehicles, and many others from severe damages of excessive icing. The slippery liquid-infused porous ...
    • Onion inspired hydrate-phobic surfaces 

      Wang, Feng; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jing; Ning, Fulong; Ma, Rui; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Hydrate plugging in gas- and oil-production and transport systems has long been a critical challenge. Traditional hydrate mitigation strategies through applying chemicals and thermal destabilization are costly and ...
    • Phase transition enabled durable anti-icing surfaces and its DIY design 

      Wang, Feng; Ding, Wenwu; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Generally, the longevity and durability of slippery liquid infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) applied for anti-icing purpose are of great challenge. In this work, phase transformable slippery liquid infused porous surfaces ...
    • Simultaneously toughening and stiffening elastomers with octuple hydrogen bonding 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Xia, Zhijie; Qi, Yuan; Sumigawa, Takashi; Wu, Jianyang; Sestak, Petr; Lu, Yinan; Håkonsen, Verner; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; Chen, Wei; Xiao, Senbo; Long, Rong; Kitamura, Takayuki; Li, Liangbin; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Current synthetic elastomers suffer from the well-known trade-off between toughness and stiffness. By a combination of multi-scale experiments and atomistic simulations, we demonstrate a transparent unfilled elastomer with ...
    • Sintering properties of sol–gel derived lithium disilicate glass ceramics 

      Wang, Feng; Li, Ke; Ning, Congqin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Lithium disilicate (Li2Si2O5) glass-ceramics were fabricated through two sol–gel methods: the nitrate route and the alkoxide route. Thermal analysis revealed different crystallization processing of two gel-derived powders. ...
    • Surface Wrinkling with Memory for Programming Adhesion and Wettability 

      Wang, Feng; Xiao, Senbo; Luo, Sihai; Fu, Yuequn; Skallerud, Bjørn Helge; Kristiansen, Helge; cui, mengkui; zhong, chao; Liu, Siqi; Zhuo, Yizhi; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Modulating surface wrinkling is important for a variety of engineering applications. It has been known for more than two decades that the wavelength of surface wrinkles occurring in a metal film–soft polymer system scales ...
    • Thickness Mediated Morphology Evolution in Sub-10-nm Metal Film Deposition: Implications for Non-destructive Testing 

      Wang, Feng; Fu, Yuequn; Xiao, Senbo; Skallerud, Bjørn Helge; Liu, Siqi; Luo, Sihai; Kristiansen, Helge; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Thickness in sub-10-nm metal film deposition is a seldomly explored parameter that can influence not only the film mechanical properties but also the surface functional characteristics. In this study, we designed bilayer ...
    • Towards the “sustainable” operation at -30 °C without the expense of energy for heating on-face electronics: intelligent heat conservation and waste heat utilization 

      Zhou, Tianle; Chen, Zhengdong; Chen, Shuangqin; Wang, Feng; Zhuo, Yizhi; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying; Tan, Huaping; Liu, Xiaoheng; Wang, Xin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      On-face electronics (On-faceE) are urged to sense “anytime, anywhere” for enabling human senses to globally dominate the Internet of Things. However, with the limited lifetime of batteries and the miniaturization of the ...
    • Ultra-durable Icephobic Coating by Molecular pulley 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; Håkonsen, Verner; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Slide-ring crosslinked polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is designed and prepared for anti-icing/deicing application. Compared with the covalent crosslinks, the slidable crosslinks enhance the mobility of polymer networks and ...