ICE Group · University of Sydney

2028 1 publication

Article

Rolling and Impacting Caustic Drops on Super Liquid Repellent Surfaces: In Situ Force and Energy Monitoring of Surface Degradation★

Koochak, P., Liu, K., and Wong, W. S. Y.*

Advanced Functional Materials · 36, e27264

doi:10.1002/adfm.202527264

2026 1 publication

Article

Rolling and Impacting Caustic Drops on Super Liquid Repellent Surfaces: In Situ Force and Energy Monitoring of Surface Degradation★

Koochak, P., Liu, K., and Wong, W. S. Y.*

Advanced Functional Materials · 36, e27264

doi:10.1002/adfm.202527264

2025 2 publications

Article

Self-Accelerating Drops on Silicone-Based Super Liquid-Repellent Surfaces★

Koochak, P., Lin, M., Afzalifar, A., Hashemi, A., Arunachalam, S., Shoaib, A., Turkki, V., Ala-Nissila, T., Daniel, D., Vuckovac, M., and Wong, W. S. Y.*

ACS Nano · 19, 23105–23119

doi:10.1021/acsnano.5c04250

Article

Fast Capillary Waves on an Underwater Superhydrophobic Surface

Fauconnier, M., Karunakaran, B., Drago-González, A., Wong, W. S. Y., Ras, R. H. A., and Nieminen, H. J.

Nature Communications · 16, 1568

doi:10.1038/s41467-025-55907-w

2024 7 publications

Article

Smoothening Perfluoroalkylated Surfaces: Liquid-Like Despite Molecular Rigidity?★

Koochak, P., Kiseleva, M. S., Lepikko, S., Latikka, M., Ras, R. H. A., and Wong, W. S. Y.*

Advanced Materials Interfaces · 12, 2400619

doi:10.1002/admi.202400619

Article

Facile, Scalable and Substrate-Independent Omniphobic Surface

Ma, J., Zhang, C., Wong, W. S. Y.*, and Song, J.*

Applied Surface Science · 682, 161726

doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.161726

Article

Direct Visualization of Viscous Dissipation and Wetting Ridge Geometry on Lubricant-Infused Surfaces

Naga, A., Rennick, M., Hauer, L., Wong, W. S. Y., Vollmer, D., and Kusumaatmaja, H.

Communications Physics · 7, 306

doi:10.1038/s42005-024-01795-3

Review

Wetting on Silicone Surfaces

Hauer, L., Naga, A., Rodrique, B., Pham, J. T., Wong, W. S. Y., and Vollmer, D.

Soft Matter · 20, 5273–5295

doi:10.1039/D4SM00346B

Article

Designing Plastrons for Underwater Bubble Capture: From Model Microstructures to Stochastic Nanostructures★

Wong, W. S. Y.*, Naga, A., Neef, T., Karunakaran, B., Poulikakos, D., and Ras, R. H. A.

Advanced Science · 11, 2403366

doi:10.1002/advs.202403366

Article

Ultrasonic Healing of Plastrons

Drago-González, A., Fauconnier, M., Karunakaran, B., Wong, W. S. Y., Ras, R. H. A., and Nieminen, H. J.

Advanced Science · 11, 2403028

doi:10.1002/advs.202403028

Article

Polarity-Induced Reactive Wetting: Spreading and Retracting Sessile Water Drops

Wong, W. S. Y.*, Kiseleva, M. S., and Naga, A.

Langmuir · 40, 13562–13572

doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c01085

2023 1 publication

Article

Design of Fluoro-Free Surfaces Super-Repellent to Low-Surface-Tension Liquids★

Wong, W. S. Y.*, Kiseleva, M. S., Zhou, S., Junaid, M., Pitkänen, L., and Ras, R. H. A.*

Advanced Materials · 35, 2300306

doi:10.1002/adma.202300306

2022 3 publications

Article

Tuning the Charge of Sliding Water Drops★

Wong, W. S. Y.*, Bista, P., Li, X., Veith, L., Sharifi-Aghili, A., Weber, S. A. L., and Butt, H-J.*

Langmuir · 38, 6224

doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00941

Article

Cryofouling Avoidance in the Antarctic Scallop Adamussium colbecki

Wong, W. S. Y., Hauer, L., Cziko, P., and Meister, K.

Communications Biology · 5, 83

doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03023-6

Article

Effervescence-Inspired Self-Healing Plastrons for Long-Term Immersion Stability★

Wong, W. S. Y.* and Vollmer, D.*

Advanced Functional Materials · 32, 2107831

doi:10.1002/adfm.202107831

2021 8 publications

Article

Heterogeneously-Wetting Glass with Enhanced Anti-Fingerprint Properties

Wang, W., Gu, W., Liu, P., Liu, J., Wang, X., Liu, J., Yu, X., Wong, W. S. Y., and Zhang, Y.*

Chemical Engineering Journal · 430, 132902

doi:10.1016/j.cej.2021.132902

Article

Frost Spreading and Pattern Formation on Microstructured Surfaces

Hauer, L., Wong, W. S. Y., Sharifi-Aghili, A., Kondic, L., and Vollmer, D.*

Physical Review E · 104, 044901

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.104.044901

Article

Super Liquid Repellent Surfaces for Anti-Foaming and Froth Management★

Wong, W. S. Y.*, Naga, A., Hauer, L., Baumli, P., Bauer, H., Hegner, K. I., D'Acunzi, M., Kaltbeitzel, A., Butt, H-J., and Vollmer, D.*

Nature Communications · 12, 5358

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25556-w

Review

Wetting-Regulated Gas-Involving (Photo)electrocatalysis: Biomimetics in Energy Conversion

Liu, G., Wong, W. S. Y., Kraft, M., Ager, J. W., Vollmer, D., and Xu, R.

Chemical Society Reviews · 50, 10674–10699

doi:10.1039/d1cs00258a

Article

Ultrafast Bubble Bursting by Superamphiphobic Coatings

Hegner, K. I., Wong, W. S. Y.*, and Vollmer, D.*

Advanced Materials · 33, 2101855

doi:10.1002/adma.202101855

Article

Effect of Surface Entropy on Heat of Non-Wetting Liquid Intrusion into Nanopores

Lowe, A., Wong, W. S. Y., Tsyrin, N., Chorążewski, M., Zaki, A., Geppert-Rybczyńska, M., Stoudenets, V., Tricoli, A., Faik, A., and Grosu, Y.

Langmuir · 37, 4827–4835

doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00005

Article

How Frost Forms and Grows on Lubricated Micro- and Nanostructured Surfaces

Hauer, L.†, Wong, W. S. Y.†, Donadei, V., Hegner, K. I., Kondic, L., and Vollmer, D.

ACS Nano · 15, 4658–4668

doi:10.1021/acsnano.0c09152

Article

How a Water Drop Removes a Particle from a Hydrophobic Surface

Naga, A., Kaltbeitzel, A., Wong, W. S. Y., Butt, H-J., and Vollmer, D.

Soft Matter · 17, 1746–1755

doi:10.1039/D0SM01925A

2020 5 publications

Review

The Challenge of Lubricant-Replenishment on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces

Baumli, P., D'Acunzi, M., Hegner, K. I., Naga, A., Wong, W. S. Y., Butt, H-J., and Vollmer, D.

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science · 287, 102329

doi:10.1016/j.cis.2020.102329

Article

Capillary Balancing: Designing Frost-Resistant Lubricant-Infused Surfaces★

Wong, W. S. Y.*, Hegner, K. I., Donadei, V., Hauer, L., Naga, A., and Vollmer, D.*

Nano Letters · 20, 8508–8515

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02956

Article

Oil-Immersion Stable Superamphiphobic Coatings for Long-term Super Liquid-Repellency

Jiao, X., Li, M., Yu, X., Wong, W. S. Y.*, and Zhang, Y.*

Chemical Engineering Journal · 420, 127606

doi:10.1016/j.cej.2020.127606

Article

Adaptive Wetting of Polydimethylsiloxane

Wong, W. S. Y., Hauer, L., Naga, A., Kaltbeitzel, A., Baumli, P., D'Acunzi, M., Berger, R., Vollmer, D., and Butt, H-J.

Langmuir · 36, 7236–7245

doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00538

Article

Microdroplet Contaminants: When and Why Superamphiphobic Surfaces Are Not Self-Cleaning

Wong, W. S. Y.*, Corrales, T. P., Naga, A., Baumli, P., Kaltbeitzel, A., Kappl, M., Papadopoulos, P., Vollmer, D., and Butt, H-J.*

ACS Nano · 14, 3836–3846

doi:10.1021/acsnano.9b08211

2019 1 publication

Article

Surface Chemistry Enhancements for the Tunable Super-Liquid Repellency of Low-Surface-Tension Liquids★

Wong, W. S. Y.*

Nano Letters · 19, 1892–1901

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04972

2018 3 publications

Article

Cassie-Levitated Droplets for Distortion-Free Low-Energy Solid–Liquid Interactions

Wong, W. S. Y.* and Tricoli, A.*

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces · 10, 13999–14007

doi:10.1021/acsami.8b00641

Book Chapter

Multi-Scale Engineering and Scalable Fabrication of Super(de)wetting Coatings

Wong, W. S. Y.* and Tricoli, A.

Advanced Coating Materials, Wiley-Scrivener · 394–457

doi:10.1002/9781119407652

Article

Dynamically Gas-Phase Switchable Super(de)Wetting States by Reversible Amphiphilic Functionalization: A Powerful Approach for Smart Fluid Gating Membranes

Wong, W. S. Y., Gengenbach, T., Nguyen, H. T., Gao, X., Craig, V. S. J., and Tricoli, A.

Advanced Functional Materials · 28, 1704423

doi:10.1002/adfm.201704423

2017 2 publications

Article

Superamphiphobic Bionic Proboscis for Contamination-Free Manipulation of Nano- and Core-Shell Droplets

Wong, W. S. Y., Liu, G., and Tricoli, A.

Small · 13, 1603688

doi:10.1002/smll.201603688

Article

Omnidirectional Self-Assembly of Transparent Superoleophobic Nanotextures★

Wong, W. S. Y., Liu, G., Nasiri, N., Hao, C., Wang, Z., and Tricoli, A.

ACS Nano · 11, 587–596

doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b06715

2016 5 publications

Article

Mimosa Origami: a Nanostructure-enabled Directional Self-Organization Regime of Materials★

Wong, W. S. Y., Li, M., Nisbet, D. R., Craig, V. S. J., Wang, Z., and Tricoli, A.

Science Advances · 2, e1600417

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600417

Article

Ultra-Durable and Transparent Self-Cleaning Surfaces by Large-Scale Self-Assembly of Hierarchical Interpenetrated Polymer Networks★

Wong, W. S. Y., Stachurski, Z. H., Nisbet, D. R., and Tricoli, A.

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces · 8, 13615–13623

doi:10.1021/acsami.6b03414

Article

Immobilization of O-Acetylserine Sulfhydrylase as Highly Active and Recyclable Nanobiocatalyst: Efficient Synthesis of beta-Pyrazol-1-yl-L-alanine

Vahidi, A. K., Wang, Z., Wong, W. S. Y., and Li, Z.

Catalysis Science and Technology · 6, 6286–6293

doi:10.1039/C6CY00755D

Article

Ultraporous Superhydrophobic Gas-Permeable Nano-Layers by Scalable Solvent-Free One-Step Self-Assembly

Liu, G., Wong, W. S. Y., Nasiri, N., and Tricoli, A.

Nanoscale · 8, 6085–6093

doi:10.1039/C5NR09000H

Article

Strain Engineering of Wave-like Nanofibers for Dynamically Switchable Adhesive/Repulsive Surfaces

Wong, W. S. Y., Gutruf, P., Sriram, S., Bhaskaran, M., Wang, Z., and Tricoli, A.

Advanced Functional Materials · 26, 399–407

doi:10.1002/adfm.201503982

2015 1 publication

Article

Flexible Transparent Hierarchical Nanomesh for Rose Petal-Like Droplet Manipulation and Lossless Transfer

Wong, W. S. Y., Nasiri, N., Liu, G., Rumsey-Hill, N., Craig, V. S. J., Nisbet, D. R., and Tricoli, A.

Advanced Materials Interfaces · 2, 1500071

doi:10.1002/admi.201500071

2014 1 publication

Article

Hierarchical Amorphous Nanofibers for Transparent Inherently Super-Hydrophilic Coatings

Wong, W. S. Y., Nasiri, N., Rodriguez, A. L., Nisbet, D. R., and Tricoli, A.

Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2, 15575–15581

doi:10.1039/C4TA03278K

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