Controlled Fabrication and Water Collection Ability of Bioinspired Artificial Spider Silks
Controlled Fabrication and Water Collection Ability of Bioinspired Artificial Spider Silks
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仿生人造蜘蛛丝的受控制造和集水能力
DOI:
10.1002/adma.201101740
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发表时间:
2011-08-23
影响因子:
29.4
通讯作者:
Jiang, Lei
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作者:
Bai, Hao;Ju, Jie;Jiang, Lei
Figure 1 . Optical images of BASs fabricated at different conditions by drawing the nylon fi bers out of the PMMA/DMF solution. The drawing out velocity is changed from 10, 50, 100, 150, to 200 mm/min, and the solution concentration is changed from 3%, 5%, 7%, 9%, to 11% (PMMA in weight). In the images in c), where the concentration or velocity is too low to form the cylindrical solution fi lm, no obvious spindle-knots are found on the fi bers. In the images in a), where the concentration is too high for the solution fi lm to break up into droplets before being dried, the periodicity of the knots is poor and the knots are always in the asymmetric shape. In the images in b), where both the solution concentration and drawing out velocity are optimized, spindle-knots with good periodicity are fabricated on the nylon fi bers. Collecting water from fog is a feasible route to solve the problem of water shortage, especially in dry and fog-laden areas. [ 1–7 ] In nature some creatures have developed the amazing ability to collect water owing to special microand nanostructures on their surfaces, such as desert beetles [ 8 ] and cribellate spiders. [ 9 ] The desert beetle’s back is patterned with hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions. Water droplets fi rst condense on the hydrophilic region and then roll off the back because of gravity. Some research has been carried out to mimic the beetle’s back by collecting water on bioinspired two-dimensional substrates with patterned wettability. [ 10–12 ]