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Biology Inspired Superhydrophobic Surfaces

2011· article· en· W2081812740 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAdvanced materials research · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicSurface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContact angleWettingMaterials scienceGoniometerTemplatePolyethylenePolymerSurface (topology)Scanning electron microscopeTilt (camera)NanotechnologyComposite materialCrystallographyMechanical engineeringChemistry

Abstract

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In this study, the surface structure of a self-cleaning, superhydrophobic leaf was examined using electron microscopy and optical methods, and its wetting properties were measured using a contact angle goniometer. Using the micro/nanostructural surface features of this leaf as a blueprint, an inexpensive surface structuring technique was developed by modifying the surface of nanocrystalline nickel to create a template. These templates were then pressed into softened polyethylene at elevated temperatures and pressures, thereby transferring the structured surface to the polymer samples. All templates and pressed polymers were characterized in the same manner as the leaves. This method increased the wetting angle for polyethylene from 96° to 151° and reduced the tilt angle from 38° to <5°.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.153
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.220 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it