Wetting of Nanostructures

J. G. Fan, X. J. Tang, and Y.-P. Zhao, “Water contact angles of vertically aligned Si nanorod arrays,” Nanotechnology 15, 501–504 (2004).
J.-G. Fan, D. Dyer, G.-G. Zhang, and Y.-P. Zhao, “Nano-carpet effect: pattern formation during the wetting of vertically aligned nanorod array,” Nano Letters 4, 2133–2138 (2004).
J.-G. Fan and Y.-P. Zhao, “Characterization of watermarks formed in nano-carpet effect,” Langmuir 22, 3662–3671 (2006).
Y.-P. Zhao and J.-G. Fan, “Clusters of bundled nanorods in nanocarpet effect,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 88, 103123 (2006).
J.-G. Fan and Y.-P. Zhao, “Spreading of a water droplet on a vertically aligned Si nanorod array surface,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 013102 (2007).
J.-G. Fan, J.-X. Fu, A. Collins, and Y-P Zhao, “The effect of the shape of nanorod arrays on the nanocarpet effect,” Nanotechnology 19, 045713 (2008).
J.-G. Fan and Y.-P. Zhao, “Freezing a water droplet on an aligned Si nanorod array substrate,” Nanotechnology 19, 155707 (2008).
J. G. Fan and Y.-P. Zhao, "Nanocarpet effect induced superhydrophobicity," Langmuire 26, 8245–8250 (2010).
Aisha Leh, Hartmann N'guessan, Jianguo Fan, Prashant Badahur, Rafael Tadmor, Yiping Zhao, "On the role of the three-phase contact line in surface deformation," Langmuir 28, 5795–5801 (2012).