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Topography Optimization for Sustainable Dropwise Condensation: The Critical Role of Correlation Length

Panagiotis Sarkiris, Vassilios Constantoudis, Kosmas Ellinas, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Athanasios Milionis, John Anagnostopoulos, Dimos Poulikakos, Evangelos Gogolides. Advanced Functional Materials. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202306756
Freezing-induced wetting transitions on superhydrophobic surfaces

Henry Lambley, Gustav Graeber, Raphael Vogt, Leon C. Gaugler, Enea Baumann, Thomas M. Schutzius, Dimos Poulikakos. Nature Physics. DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-01946-3
Transparent sunlight-activated antifogging metamaterials

Iwan Haechler, Nicole Ferru, Gabriel Schnoering, Efstratios Mitridis, Thomas M. Schutzius, and Dimos Poulikakos. Nature Nanotechnology. DOI: 0.1038/s41565-022-01267-1
Ultrathin Durable Organic Hydrophobic Coatings Enhancing Dropwise Condensation Heat Transfer

Abinash Tripathy, Kartik Regulagadda, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Matteo A. Donati, Athanasios Milionis, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Efstratios Mitridis, Thomas M. Schutzius, and Dimos Poulikakos. Langmuir. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c01477
Enhanced Condensation on Soft Materials through Bulk Lubricant Infusion

Chander Shekhar Sharma, Athanasios Milionis, Abhinav Naga, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Gabriel Rodriguez, Marco Francesco Del Ponte, Valentina Negri, Hopf Raoul, Maria D’Acunzi, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Doris Vollmer, and Dimos Poulikakos. Advanced Functional Materials. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202109633
Exploiting radiative cooling for uninterrupted 24-hour water harvesting from the atmosphere

Iwan Haechler, Hyunchul Park, Gabriel Schnoering, Tobias Gulich, Mathieu Rohner, Abinash Tripathy, Athanasios Milionis, Thomas M. Schutzius and Dimos Poulikakos. ScienceAdvances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf3978
Leidenfrost droplet trampolining

Gustav Graeber, Kartik Regulagadda, Pascal Hodel, Christian Küttel, Dominic Landolf, Thomas M. Schutzius & Dimos Poulikakos. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21981-z
Radiative lifetime-encoded unicolour security tags using perovskite nanocrystals

Sergii Yakunin, Jana Chaaban, Bogdan M. Benin, Ihor Cherniukh, Caterina Bernasconi, Annelies Landuyt, Yevhen Shynkarenko, Sami Bolat, Christoph Hofer, Yaroslav E. Romanyuk, Stefano Cattaneo, Sergey I. Pokutnyi, Richard D. Schaller, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Dimos Poulikakos and Maksym V. Kovalenko. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21214-3.
Patterning of colloidal droplet deposits on soft materials

Julia Gerber, Thomas M. Schutzius and Dimos Poulikakos. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.855
Sprayable Thin and Robust Carbon Nanofiber Composite Coating for Extreme Jumping Dropwise Condensation Performance

Matteo Donati* Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam*, Athanasios Milionis, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Abinash Tripathy, Armend Zendeli and Dimos Poulikakos. ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES. DOI:10.1002/admi.202001176
Superhydrophobic surfaces for extreme environmental conditions

Henry Lambley, Thomas M. Schutzius and Dimos Poulikakos. PNAS. DOI:10.1073/pnas.2008775117
3D electrohydrodynamic printing and characterisation of highly conductive gold nanowalls

Patrik Rohner, Alain Reiser, Freddy T. Rabouw, Alla S. Sologubenko, David J. Norris, Ralph Spolenak and Dimos Poulikakos. Nanoscale. DOI: 10.1039/d0nr04593d
Droplet Self-Propulsion on Superhydrophobic Microtracks

Christos Stamatopoulos, Athanasios Milionis, Norbert Ackerl, Matteo Donati, Paul Leudet de la Vallée, Philipp Rudolf von Rohr and Dimos Poulikakos. ACS Nano DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03849.
Transparent Photothermal Metasurfaces Amplifying Superhydrophobicity by Absorbing Sunlight

Efstratios Mitridis, Henry Lambley, Sven Tröber, Thomas M. Schutzius, and Dimos Poulikakos. ACSNANO. DOI:10.1021/acsnano.0c04365
Metals by Micro‐Scale Additive Manufacturing: Comparison of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties

A. Reiser at al. ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS. DOI:10.1002/adfm.201910491
A Plasmonic Painter’s Method of Color Mixing for a Continuous Red–Green–Blue Palette

Claudio U. Hail, Gabriel Schnoering, Mehdi Damak, Dimos Poulikakos and Hadi Eghlidi. ACSNano. DOI:10.1021/acsnano.9b07523
Superhydrophobic hemostatic nanofiber composites for fast clotting and minimal adhesion

Zhe Li, Athanasios Milionis, Yu Zheng, Marcus Yee, Lukas Codispoti, Freddie Tan, Dimos Poulikakos & Choon Hwai Yap. Nature Communications. DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-13512-8
Microengineered biosynthesized cellulose as anti-fibrotic in vivo protection for cardiac implantable electronic devices

Francesco Robotti, Ita Sterner, Simone Bottan, Josep M.Monné Rodríguez, Giovanni Pellegrini, Tanja Schmidt, Volkmar Falk, Dimos Poulikakos, Aldo Ferrari, Christoph Starck. Biomaterials 2019, 229: 119583, doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.119583.
Wetting transitions in droplet drying on soft materials

Julia Gerber, Tobias Lendenmann, Hadi Eghlidi, Thomas M. Schutzius & Dimos Poulikakos. Nature Communications 2019. DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-12093-w
Cellogram: On-the-Fly Traction Force Microscopy

Tobias Lendenmann, Teseo Schneider, Jérémie Dumas, Marco Tarini, Costanza Giampietro, Apratim Bajpai, Weiqiang Chen, Julia Gerber, Dimos Poulikakos, Aldo Ferrari, Daniele Panozzo. Nano Lett.2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01505