Hydrophilic reentrant SLIPS enabled flow separation for rapid water harvesting.

Water harvesting from air is desired for decentralized water supply wherever water is needed. When water vapor is condensed as droplets on a surface the unremoved droplets act as thermal barriers. A surface that can provide continual droplet-free areas for nucleation is favorable for condensation water harvesting.

Quasi-Liquid Surfaces for Sustainable High-Performance Steam Condensation.

Sustainable high-performance steam condensation is critical to reducing the size, weight, and cost of water and energy systems. It is well-known that dropwise condensation can provide a significantly higher heat-transfer coefficient than filmwise condensation. Tremendous efforts have been spent to promote dropwise condensation by achieving a nonwetting state on superhydrophobic surfaces and a slippery state on liquid-infused surfaces, but these surfaces suffer from severe durability challenges.

Passive Removal of Highly Wetting Liquids and Ice on Quasi-Liquid Surfaces.

Surfaces with ultralow adhesion to liquids and solids have attracted broad interests in both fundamental studies and engineering applications from passive removal of highly wetting liquids and water harvesting to anti-/de-icing. The current state-of-the-art superomniphobic surfaces (rely on air lubricant) and liquid-infused surfaces (rely on liquid lubricant) suffer from severe issues for liquid repellency and ice removal: air/liquid lubricant loss or topography damage. Here, we create a durable quasi-liquid surface by tethering flexible polymer on various solid substrates.

[Study on the location of membrane and detection of antibody in the sera of genus-specific antigen LipL41s in patients with Leptospira interrogans].

Objective: To determine the location on outer envelope and natural antibody response and types of genus-specific lipoprotein antigen LipL41s in patients with Leptospira interrogans.

Methods: Microscope agglutination test (MAT) was used to examine leptospirosis patients' serum samples from Sichuan area, China. Ni-NTA affinity chromatography was performed to extract the target recombinant rLipL41/1 and rLipL41/2 products that expressed under inducement of IPTG.

[Establishment of standardized method for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis on Leptospira interrogans and analysis on their patterns].

Objective: To establish a standardized operation procedure for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) on Leptospira interrogans as well as a figure digital database to develop the Chinese representative reference strains.

Methods: Under the characteristics of strains and referring to the other SOPs of PFGE on pathogens provided by CDC and PulseNet Asia Pacific, genomic chromosome DNA purification, restriction endonuclease digestion and the parameters for running PFGE were optimized.

Results: Not I digestion patterns of leptospiral genome for the Chinese representative strains were established and partial isolates of serogroup icterohaemorrhagiae from the leptospirosis surveillance in Sichuan and Anhui provinces were analyzed by PFGE.

[Membrane location and naturally antibody responses of genus-specific antigen OmpL1s of Leptospira interrogans].

The major aim of this study is to determine the location on outer envelope of the genus-specific antigen OmpL1s of Leptospira interrogans, and the inducement of naturally antibody response and types of the antigen, which will offer the evidences to use OmpL1s as the antigen candidate for developing universal genetic engineering vaccine and detection kit. The serum samples from 156 leptospirosis patients in Sichuan area were detected using microscope agglutination test (MAT). By using PCR plus nucleotide sequence analysis, the genotypes of the dominant L.