One-Step Fabrication Bioinspired Flexible Hierarchical Micro-Nano Structures with Different Morphologies.

In this study, different flexible structures that are morphologically like the micro-nano pillars, setae, and cilia on many natural organism surfaces are created with a novel fabricating strategy to explore the phenomenon and mechanism of static and dynamic droplets forming on them. Just by adjusting the mold pattern during fabrication, different micro/nanomorphologies including micro-nano pillar, filament, or flake arrays could be conveniently obtained on a pristine smooth film surface. Due to the existence of uniformly distributed hierarchical micro-nano structure arrays that are composed of top-down nanoscale filamentous tips, micro block bases, and grooves on the film, air trapped in arrays connects the atmosphere continuously and forms a successive air-pocket layer, which greatly reduces the solid-liquid interfacial fraction and endows the micro-nanotextured film with the capability of superhydrophobicity, low-adhesion, self-cleaning, anti-icing, and deicing characteristics.

A quasiphysics intelligent model for a long range fast tool servo.

Accurately modeling the dynamic behaviors of fast tool servo (FTS) is one of the key issues in the ultraprecision positioning of the cutting tool. Herein, a quasiphysics intelligent model (QPIM) integrating a linear physics model (LPM) and a radial basis function (RBF) based neural model (NM) is developed to accurately describe the dynamic behaviors of a voice coil motor (VCM) actuated long range fast tool servo (LFTS). To identify the parameters of the LPM, a novel Opposition-based Self-adaptive Replacement Differential Evolution (OSaRDE) algorithm is proposed which has been proved to have a faster convergence mechanism without compromising with the quality of solution and outperform than similar evolution algorithms taken for consideration.