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Critical Pressure Asymmetry in the Enclosed Fluid Diode
[Image: see text] Joint physically and chemically pattered surfaces can provide efficient and passive manipulation of fluid flow. The ability of many of these surfaces to allow only unidirectional flow means they are often termed fluid diodes. Synthetic analogues of these are enabling technologies f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7467749/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32486645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01039 |
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author | Panter, Jack R. Gizaw, Yonas Kusumaatmaja, Halim |
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description | [Image: see text] Joint physically and chemically pattered surfaces can provide efficient and passive manipulation of fluid flow. The ability of many of these surfaces to allow only unidirectional flow means they are often termed fluid diodes. Synthetic analogues of these are enabling technologies from sustainable water collection via fog harvesting to improved wound dressings. One key fluid diode geometry features a pore sandwiched between two absorbent substrates—an important design for applications that require liquid capture while preventing back-flow. However, the enclosed pore is particularly challenging to design as an effective fluid diode due to the need for both a low Laplace pressure for liquid entering the pore and a high Laplace pressure to liquid leaving. Here, we calculate the Laplace pressure for fluid traveling in both directions on a range of conical pore designs with a chemical gradient. We show that this chemical gradient is in general required to achieve the largest critical pressure differences between incoming and outgoing liquids. Finally, we discuss the optimization strategy to maximize this critical pressure asymmetry. |
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spelling | pubmed-74677492020-09-03 Critical Pressure Asymmetry in the Enclosed Fluid Diode Panter, Jack R. Gizaw, Yonas Kusumaatmaja, Halim Langmuir [Image: see text] Joint physically and chemically pattered surfaces can provide efficient and passive manipulation of fluid flow. The ability of many of these surfaces to allow only unidirectional flow means they are often termed fluid diodes. Synthetic analogues of these are enabling technologies from sustainable water collection via fog harvesting to improved wound dressings. One key fluid diode geometry features a pore sandwiched between two absorbent substrates—an important design for applications that require liquid capture while preventing back-flow. However, the enclosed pore is particularly challenging to design as an effective fluid diode due to the need for both a low Laplace pressure for liquid entering the pore and a high Laplace pressure to liquid leaving. Here, we calculate the Laplace pressure for fluid traveling in both directions on a range of conical pore designs with a chemical gradient. We show that this chemical gradient is in general required to achieve the largest critical pressure differences between incoming and outgoing liquids. Finally, we discuss the optimization strategy to maximize this critical pressure asymmetry. American Chemical Society 2020-06-02 2020-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7467749/ /pubmed/32486645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01039 Text en Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/authorchoice_ccby_termsofuse.html) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited. |
spellingShingle | Panter, Jack R. Gizaw, Yonas Kusumaatmaja, Halim Critical Pressure Asymmetry in the Enclosed Fluid Diode |
title | Critical Pressure Asymmetry in the Enclosed Fluid
Diode |
title_full | Critical Pressure Asymmetry in the Enclosed Fluid
Diode |
title_fullStr | Critical Pressure Asymmetry in the Enclosed Fluid
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title_full_unstemmed | Critical Pressure Asymmetry in the Enclosed Fluid
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title_short | Critical Pressure Asymmetry in the Enclosed Fluid
Diode |
title_sort | critical pressure asymmetry in the enclosed fluid
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7467749/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32486645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01039 |
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