Effects of surface nanotexturing on the wickability of microtextured metal surfaces.

Hypothesis: Achieving spontaneous, rapid, and long-distance liquid transport is crucial for many practical applications such as phase change heat transfer and reactions at solid-liquid interfaces. Surface nanotexturing has been widely reported to improve the wickability of microtextured metal surfaces. Although surface nanotextures show high capillary pressure, the high fluid flow resistance through nanotextures prevents fluid transport.

A universal approach to recover the original superhydrophilicity of micro/nano-textured metal or metal oxide surfaces.

Micro/nano-textured metal or metal oxide surfaces that are naturally superhydrophilic will spontaneously transform into hydrophobic even superhydrophobic after being exposed to ambient air due to the adsorption of airborne organics. This fast wettability transition not only affects the true evaluation of surface wettability but also deteriorates the application performance. Albeit the mechanisms responsible for the wettability transition have been clarified, there is no universal method to recover the initial superhydrophilicity, and how the surface morphology affects the wettability transition is still unclear.

[Selection of Characteristic Wavelengths Using SPA and Qualitative Discrimination of Mildew Degree of Corn Kernels Based on SVM].

The feasibility of Fourier transform near infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy with spectral range between 833 and 2 500 nm to detect the moldy corn kernels with different levels of mildew was verified in this paper. Firstly, to avoid the influence of noise, moving average smoothing was used for spectral data preprocessing after four common pretreatment methods were compared. Then to improve the prediction performance of the model, SPXY (sample set partitioning based on joint x-y distance) was selected and used for sample set partition.