Our paper entitled “Hydrophilic Directional Slippery Rough Surfaces for Water Harvesting” has been highlighted by National Science Foundation Science360 as top story of the day.
April 2, 2018
Our work attracted extensive media attentions, such as ACS C&EN, New Scientist, Science Magazine, EurekAlert (AAAS), ZME Science, Science Daily, Nanowerk, Phys.Org, XINHUA NET, The University Network.
March 30, 2018
Our paper entitled “Hydrophilic Directional Slippery Rough Surfaces for Water Harvesting” is now published by Science Advances, the open access journal of Science publishing group (AAAS).
Feb. 9, 2018
Xianming (Simon) Dai served as a judge in the 2018 Plano ISD Secondary Science Fair for middle and high school students.
Feb. 11, 2017
The Dai group gave Tech Demos of Nature Inspired Liquid Repellent Coatings to local middle and high school students in 2017 National Engineers Week. Special thanks to our team!
Feb. 17, 2016
Our “Slippery Wenzel State” paper has been selected as one of the prestigious JALA Ten 2016. Each year, JALA seeks to highlight and honor the best work of the year that will have a deep impact on how technology is used across a wide range of disciplines.
Dec. 28, 2015
Our bioinspired slippery surface has been successfully used for ultra-sensitive detection. The manuscript entitled “Ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection in common fluids” was directly submitted to the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and got published online.
Nov. 6, 2015
ACS Nano invited us to submit a video about our work entitled “Slippery Wenzel State”, due to its large number of downloads by the international readers. Watch the video!
Oct. 31, 2015
Our “Slippery Wenzel State” paper ranks NO. 1 among the most read articles in ACS Nano from September to October 2015. Please check it out!
Sep. 19, 2015
NSF Science360 reported our work of “Slippery Wenzel State”. They specifically explained what Cassie and Wenzel states are. Watch the video!