3D printing of asymmetric re-entrant microstructure for unidirectional liquid spreading

• Main Author: Suhail Ahamed
• Other Authors: Zhou Kun
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167184
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Numerous organisms in nature have developed extraordinary unidirectional liquid spreading capabilities, including the peristome of Nepenthes Pitcher Plant, the back of a desert beetle, spider silk, and the conical spine of a cactus. Unidirectional liquid spreading without the use of external energy...