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Publications:

  1. Wong, W. S. Y.*, Kiseleva M. S., Zhou S., Junaid M., Pitkänen L., and Ras R. H. A.* Design of Fluoro-Free Surfaces Super-Repellent to Low-Surface-Tension Liquids. Advanced Materials 2023, 2300306.​ link

  2. Wong, W. S. Y.*, Bista, P., Li, X., Veith, L., Sharifi-Aghili, A., Weber, S. A. L. and Butt, H-J.* Tuning the Charge of Sliding Water Drops. Langmuir 2022 (in press). link

  3. Wong, W. S. Y, Hauer, L., Cziko, P., and Meister, K. Cryofouling Avoidance in the Antarctic Scallop Adamussium colbecki. Communications Biology 2022, 5, 83. link

  4. Wang, W., Gu, W., Liu, P., Liu, J., Wang X., Liu J., Yu X.*, Wong, W. S. Y.* and Zhang, Y.* Heterogeneously-wetting glass with enhanced anti-fingerprint properties. Chemical Engineering Journal 2021, 430, 132902. link

  5. Wong, W. S. Y* and Vollmer, D.* Effervescence-Inspired Self-Healing Plastrons for Long-Term Immersion Stability. Advanced Functional Materials 2021, 32, 2107831. link

  6. Hauer, L., Wong, W. S. Y., Sharifi-Aghili, A., Kondic, L. and Vollmer, D.* Frost Spreading and Pattern Formation on Microstructured Surfaces. Physical Review E 2021, 104, 044901. link

  7. Wong, W. S. Y.*, Naga, A., Hauer, L., Baumli, P., Bauer, H., Hegner, K. I., D‘Acunzi, M., Kaltbeitzel, A., Butt, H-J. and Vollmer, D.* Super Liquid Repellent Surfaces for Anti-Foaming and froth management. Nature Communications 2021, 12, 5358. link

  8. Liu, G., Wong, W. S. Y., Kraft, M., Ager, J. W., Vollmer, D. and Xu, R. Wetting-Regulated Gas-Involving (Photo)electrocatalysis: Biomimetics in Energy Conversion. Chemical Society Reviews 2021, 50, 10674. link

  9. Hegner, K. I., Wong, W. S. Y.* and Vollmer, D.* Ultrafast Bubble Bursting by Superamphiphobic Coatings. Advanced Materials 2021, 33, 2101855. link

  10. Lowe, A, Wong, W. S. Y., Tsyrin, N., Chorążewski, M., Zaki, A., Geppert-Rybczyńska, M., Stoudenets, V., Tricoli, A., Faik, A. and Grosu, Y. Effect of Surface Entropy on Heat of Non-Wetting Liquid Intrusion into Nanopores. Langmuir 2021, 37, 4827. link

  11. Hauer, L.^, Wong, W. S. Y.^, Donadei, V., Hegner, K. I., Kondic, L. and Vollmer, D. How Frost Forms and Grows on Lubricated Micro- and Nanostructured Surfaces. ACS Nano 2021, 15, 3, 4658. link

  12. Naga, A., Kaltbeitzel, A. Wong, W. S. Y., Butt, H-J. and Vollmer, D. How a Water Drop Removes a Particle from a Hydrophobic Surface. Soft Matter 2021, 17, 1746. link

  13. Baumli, P., D‘Acunzi, M., Hegner, K., Naga, A., Wong, W. S. Y., Butt, H-J. and Vollmer, D. The Challenge of Lubricant-Replenishment on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 2020, 287, 102329. link

  14. Wong, W. S. Y.*, Hegner, K. I., Donadei, V., Hauer, L. and Vollmer, D.* Capillary Balancing: Designing Frost-Resistant Lubricant-Infused Surfaces. Nano Letters 2020, 20, 8508. link

  15. Jiao, X., Li, M., Yu, X., Wong, W. S. Y.* and Zhang, Y.* Oil-Immersion Stable Superamphiphobic Coatings for Long-term Super Liquid-Repellency. Chemical Engineering Journal 2020, 420, 127606. link

  16. Wong, W. S. Y., Hauer, L., Naga, A., Kaltbeitzel, A., Baumli, P., D‘Acunzi, M., Berger, R., Vollmer, D. and Butt, H-J. Adaptive Wetting of Polydimethylsiloxane. Langmuir 2020, 36, 7236. link

  17. Wong, W. S. Y.*, Corrales, T. P., Naga A., Baumli P., Kaltbeitzel A., Kappl M., Papadopoulos P., Vollmer, D., and Butt, H-J.* Microdroplet Contaminants: When and Why Superamphiphobic Surfaces are Not Self-Cleaning. ACS Nano 2020, 14, 3836. link

  18. Wong, W. S. Y.*, Surface Chemistry Enhancements for the Tunable Super Liquid Repellency of Low Surface Tension Liquids. Nano Letters 2019, 19, 1892. link

  19. Wong, W. S. Y.* and Tricoli, A., Book Chapter: Multi-Scale Engineering and Scalable Fabrication of Super(de)wetting Coatings, Advanced Coating Materials 2018, Wiley-Scrivener Publishing. link    (Invited contribution, Oct 2018)

  20. Wong, W. S. Y.* and Tricoli, A.*, Cassie-Levitated Droplets for Distortion-Free Low Energy Solid-Liquid Interactions. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2018, 10, 13999. link

  21. Wong, W. S. Y., Gengenbach, T., Nguyen H. T., Gao X., Craig V. S. J. and Tricoli, A., Dynamically Gas-Phase Switchable Super(de)Wetting States by Reversible Amphiphilic Functionalization: A Powerful Approach for Smart Fluid Gating Membranes. Advanced Functional Materials 2017, 28, 1704423. link

  22. Wong, W. S. Y., Liu, G., and Tricoli, A., Superamphiphobic Bionic Proboscis for Contamination-Free Manipulation of Nano- and Core-Shell Droplets. Small 2017, 1603688. link

  23. Wong, W. S. Y., Liu, G., Nasiri, N., Hao, C., Wang, Z. and Tricoli, A., Omnidirectional Self-Assembly of Transparent Superoleophobic Nanotextures. ACS Nano 2016, 11, 587. link

  24. Wong, W. S. Y., Li, M., Nisbet, D. R., Craig, V. S. J., Wang, Z. and Tricoli, A., Mimosa Origami: a Nanostructure-enabled Directional Self-Organization Regime of Materials. Science Advances 2016, 2, e1600417. link (Featured internationally on research and public media: Nature Research Highlights, Nature Physics, RSC Chemistry World,  Popular Mechanics, Gizmag, Nanotechweb.org, Asianscientist.com, Materials World, Phys.org, The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC Canberra Radio, ANU News)

  25. Wong, W. S. Y., Stachurski Z. H., Nisbet D. R. and Tricoli, A., Ultra-Durable and Transparent Self-Cleaning Surfaces by Large-Scale Self-Assembly of Hierarchical Interpenetrated Polymer Networks. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2016, 8 (21), 13615. link (Featured internationally on research and public media: Forbes, NewAtlas, Materialsgate, Businessinsider, Phys.org, nine.com.au,  Discovery Channel, ANU News)

  26. Vahidi, A. K., Wang, Z., Wong, W. S. Y. and Li, Z., Immobilization of O-Acetylserine Sulfhydrylase as Highly Active and Recyclable Nanobiocatalyst: Efficient Synthesis of beta-Pyrazol-1-yl-L-alanine. Catalysis Science and Technology 2016, 6, 6286. link

  27. Liu, G., Wong, W. S. Y., Nasiri, N. and Tricoli, A., Ultraporous Superhydrophobic Gas-Permeable Nano-Layers by Scalable Solvent-Free One-Step Self-Assembly. Nanoscale 2016, 8, 6085. link

  28. Wong, W. S. Y., Gutruf, P., Sriram, S., Bhaskaran, M., Wang Z. and Tricoli, A., Strain Engineering of Wave-like Nanofibers for Dynamically Switchable Adhesive/Repulsive Surfaces. Advanced Functional Materials 2016, 26, 399. link

  29. Wong, W. S. Y., Nasiri, N., Liu, G., Rumsey-Hill, N., Craig, V. S. J., Nisbet, D. R. and Tricoli, A., Flexible Transparent Hierarchical Nanomesh for Rose Petal-Like Droplet Manipulation and Lossless Transfer. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2015, 2, 1500071 link

  30. Wong, W. S. Y., Nasiri, N., Rodriguez, A. L., Nisbet, D. R. and Tricoli, A., Hierarchical amorphous nanofibers for transparent inherently super-hydrophilic coatings. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2014, 2, 15575. link

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Patents:

 

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  1. US20190169464A1, William Sai Yau Wong, David Nisbet, Zbigniew Stachurski, Antonio Tricoli. Ultra-Durable and Transparent Self-Cleaning Surfaces  through Exploitating Hierarchical Interpenetrated Polymer Networks. link

  2. PCT/AU2016/000098, William Sai Yau Wong, Vincent Craig, David Nisbet, Antonio Tricoli. Highly Adhesive Superhydrophobicity through the Rose Petal Effect Achieved through Hierarchical Bead-Fiber Structures link

  3. US20170204286A1, Liang Hong, Siok Wei Tay, William Sai Yau Wong. Anti-Scratch Coating Composed of Two Interlocked Hybrid Polymer Networks with Chain-To-Particle Connection. link

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  1. (Oral, Invited) Popping Bubbles: Surface-Enhanced Foam Control. N.I.C.E. (Nature Inspires Creativity Engineers) Winter Conference, Nice, France. Dec 2022.

  2. (Oral, Invited) Popping Bubbles: Surface-Enhanced Foam Control. International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS), Queensland, Australia. June 2022.

  3. (Oral) Cryofouling Avoidance in Antarctic Scallops. Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dec 2021.

  4. (Oral) Capillary Balancing: Designing Frost-Resistant Lubricant-Infused Surfaces. Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dec 2021.

  5. (Oral) Adaptive Wetting of Polydimethylsiloxane. Droplets 2021, Darmstadt, Germany. August 2021.

  6. (Poster) Microdroplet Contaminants: When and Why Superamphiphobic Surfaces are Not Self-Cleaning. 11th Liquid Matter Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. July 2021.

  7. (Oral) When and Why Superamphiphobic Surfaces are not Self-Cleaning. 5th International Bio-inspiration, Nice, France. Oct 2020.

  8. (Poster) Revising the Pendant Drop Model: Contactless Method for Analyzing Contact Angle Hysteresis. Hereaus Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany. Apr 2019.

  9. (Oral) Aerosol-Assembled Re-entrant Textures for Superamphiphobic Coatings and Devices. Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dec 2018.

  10. (Oral, Invited) Transparent, Robust and Sprayable Superhydrophobicity.  The Oil and Colour Chemists’ Association (OCCA) National AGM 2018, Leeds, United Kingdom. Sep 2018.

  11. (Oral) Interpenetrated Polymer Networks (IPNs) for Epidermis-Inspired Robust Superhydrophobicity.  European Colloid & Interface Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sep 2018.

  12. (Oral) Aerosolized Self-Assembly of Transparent Superoleo(amphi)phobic Re-entrant Nanotextures.  International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists, Rotterdam, Netherlands. May 2018.

  13. (Organization and Session Chair) Zsigmondy Colloquium of the German Colloid Society, Mainz, Germany. Apr 2018.

  14. (Oral) Aerosolized Self-Assembly of Transparent Superoleo(amphi)phobic Re-entrant Nanotextures. International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Wollongong, Australia. Feb 2018.

  15. (Oral, Invited) Special Talks Session: Wettability: From Liquid-Repellency to Self-Assembly. Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dec 2016.

  16. (Oral) Mimosa Origami: Self-Organization of Soft Materials. Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dec 2016.

  17. (Oral) Durable Transparent Superhydrophobic Surfaces via Sprayable Interpenetrated Polymer Networks. 36th Australasian Polymer Symposium, Lorne, Victoria, Australia. Nov 2016.

  18. (Poster) Lossless Droplet Manipulation via an Ideal Petal Effect. International Conference On Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Canberra, Australia. Feb 2016.

  19. (Oral) Zirconia Nanoparticles Capped by Coordination Ligands as Soft Anchors to Strengthen Acrylic Matrix for Hard Coating. 41st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Singapore. Work was presented by Dr. Tay Siok Wei. Jul 2014.

  20. (Poster) Evolving Zr(IV)-(acac)2 Complex to Induce Cross-Linking of Polymers. SNIC-RSC Joint Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry, Singapore. Jan 2013.

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Other Contributions:​

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  1. WO 2015143481 A1, Antonio Tricoli, David Russell Nisbet, Trilayer film for transferring fragile nanostructures. (Contributed to design variations and experimental analysis / figures) link

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