Press articles
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
Best Poster Award TECMNT 2019
The annual best poster award for the Thermodynamics and Energy Conversion in Micro- and Nanoscale Technologies was awarded to the following group:
Nanoprinting organic molecules at the quantum level
Claudio U. Hail, Christian Höller, Korenobu Matsuzaki, Patrik Rohner, Jan Renger,Vahid Sandoghdar, Dimos Poulikakos & Hadi Eghlidi. Nature Communications. DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-09877-5
Multi-metal electrohydrodynamic redox 3Dprinting at the submicron scale
Alain Reiser, Marcus Lindén, Patrik Rohner, Adrien Marchand, Henning Galinski, Alla S. Sologubenko, Jeffrey M. Wheeler, Renato Zenobi, Dimos Poulikakos & Ralph Spolenak. Nature Communications. DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-09827-1
Transparent Metasurfaces Counteracting Fogging by Harnessing Sunlight
Christopher Walker, Efstratios Mitridis, Thomas Kreiner, Hadi Eghlidi,Thomas M. Schutzius and Dimos Poulikakos. Nano Lett., Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b044
Self‐Cleaning: Engineering Fully Organic and Biodegradable Superhydrophobic Materials
Athanasios Milionis, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Raoul Hopf, Michael Uggowitzer, Ilker S. Bayer, Dimos Poulikakos. Advanced Materials Interfaces. vol 6, January 9, 2019.
Cascade Freezing of Supercooled Water Droplet Collectives
Gustav Graeber, Valentin Dolder, Thomas M. Schutzius and Dimos Poulikakos. ACS Nano, Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b05921
Acoustophoretic printing
Daniele Foresti, Katharina T. Kroll, Robert Amissah, Francesco Sillani, Kimberly A. Homan, Dimos Poulikakos and Jennifer A. Lewis.
Rationally 3D-Textured Copper Surfaces for Laplace Pressure Imbalance-Induced Enhancement in Dropwise Condensation
Chander Shekhar Sharma , Christos Stamatopoulos, Reto Suter, Philipp Rudolf von Rohr and Dimos Poulikakos. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10 (34), pp 29127–29135. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b09067
Desublimation Frosting on Nanoengineered Surfaces
Christopher Walker, Sebastian Lerch, Matthias Reininger, Hadi Eghlidi, Athanasios Milionis , Thomas M. Schutzius and Dimos Poulikakos. ACS Nano, Article ASAP.DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b03554
Metasurfaces Leveraging Solar Energy for Icephobicity
Efstratios Mitridis, Thomas M. Schutzius, Alba Sicher, Claudio U. Hail, Hadi Eghlidi and Dimos Poulikakos. ACS Nano, Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02719