Active gas replenishment and sensing of the wetting state in a submerged superhydrophobic surface
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 20331635
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1039/C6SM02820A
- Title of journal
- Soft Matter
- Article number
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- First page
- 1413
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 7
- ISSN
- 1744-683X
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The work developed a novel way to maintain gas at the liquid/solid interface to lower drag. If applied to the hull of a ship this would result in higher fuel efficiency, higher speeds (manoeuvrability) or payloads, lower vehicle size and weight, longer range and less emissions. The work is multidisciplinary covering nanotechnology, electrochemistry, fluid mechanics and tribology and resulted in Ben Lloyd being a PDRA on the EPSRC green tribology platform grant EP/J001023/1 (now at Oxis Energy UK Ltd). It also led to collaboration with Dr Reddyhoff at Imperial and is the subject of a new iCASE PhD with BAESystems
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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