• 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 ...
    • Stability, deformation and rupture of Janus oligomer enabled self-emulsifying water-in-oil microemulsion droplet 

      Fu, Yuequn; Xiao, Senbo; Liu, Siqi; Wu, Jianyang; Wang, Xiao; Qiao, Lijie; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Microemulsion exists widely in nature, daily life and industrial manufacturing, including petroleum production, food processing, drug delivery, new materials fabrication, sewage treatment, etc. The mechanical properties ...
    • 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 ...
    • Tensile Mechanical Characteristics of Thinnest Carbon Sulfur Nanothreads in Orientational Order 

      Fu, Yuequn; Wu, Jianyang; Xiao, Senbo; Liu, Siqi; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Carbon sulfur nanothreads (CSNTs) mainly composed of two chiral long alkane chains have been recently fabricated from thiophene by a pressure-induced phase transition in low-temperature, but their mechanical properties ...
    • 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 ...
    • Transportation of Janus Nanoparticles in Confined Nanochannels: A Molecular Dynamics Simulations 

      Wang, Xiao; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Janus nanoparticles (NP) have drawn great attention due to their unique surface of dual characters. In this study, transportation of Janus NPs contained two-phase fluids in an ultra-confined channel was studied by molecular ...
    • 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 ...
    • Ultra-robust icephobic coatings with high toughness, strong substrate adhesion and self-healing capability 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Håkonsen, Verner; Liu, Siqi; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; Luo, Sihai; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Enabling surfaces with passive anti-icing properties is an emerging, facile, economical, and energy-saving strategy to mitigate the harm caused by ice accretion. However, the combination of icephobicity and robustness still ...
    • Ultrafast self-healing and highly transparent coating with mechanically durable icephobicity 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Xiao, Senbo; Håkonsen, Verner; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Excessive ice accretion on infrastructures can lead to severe damage and dysfunction. In the context of combating the build-up of unwanted icing and at the same time maintaining sunlight permeation, for instance on solar ...
    • Unraveling adhesion strength between gas hydrate and solid surfaces 

      Ma, Rui; Wang, Feng; Chang, Yuanhao; Xiao, Senbo; English, Niall; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Natural gas hydrate is a promising future energy source, but it also poses a huge threat to oil and gas production due to its ability to deposit within and block pipelines. Understanding the atomistic mechanisms of adhesion ...
    • Unraveling the influence of surface roughness on oil displacement by Janus nanoparticles 

      Chang, Yuanhao; Xiao, Senbo; Ma, Rui; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Janus nanoparticles (JNPs) possess great potential in recovering the residual oil from reservoirs, however, the fundamental interaction mechanisms among nanoparticles, the oil, and reservoir wall characteristics remain to ...
    • Unravelling the mystery of fish scales in lowering ice adhesion 

      Wang, Feng; Liu, Siqi; Xiao, Senbo; Skallerud, Bjørn Helge; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The influence of static surface properties, such as free energy, toughness, and elasticity, on icephobicity has been extensively researched and documented in existing literature. However, there remains a limited understanding ...