| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2021 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Advanced Functional and Structural Thin Films and Coatings
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| Presentation Title |
Metamaterial Coatings for Tuning Optical and Fluid Wetting Behavior |
| Author(s) |
Shawn Putnam |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Shawn Putnam |
| Abstract Scope |
Recent developments in metamaterial design and manufacturing have allowed scientists and engineers to take advantage of unique wave matter interactions at the nano-scale. These nano-to-macroscale interactions foster unique modes of thermal, optical, electrical, and acoustic energy transport and conversion. The relatively broad length scales are possible (in part) because fundamental Van-Der-Waals forces occur between all matter and the corresponding force fields can be engineered via materials manufacturing at the nano-scale. This talk will overview the fabrication, characterization, and application of thin-film metamaterial coatings for a variety of different technologies. The talk will have a significant focus on the effects of applied tensile strains. For example, the application of strains to metamaterial coatings on soft matter substrates facilitate real-time (dynamic) tuning of the surface energy, resulting in novel behavior such as on-demand super-lyophilic wetting transitions and surface energy gradients for directional fluidic transport. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Electronic Materials, Thin Films and Interfaces, Energy Conversion and Storage |