Artificial Intelligence Aided Design of Microtextured Surfaces: Application to Controlling Wettability

An Application of Artificial Intelligence for Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing

The knowledge required to integrate aircraft manufacturing characteristics and constraints into the structural design process is beyond the proficiency of a single engineer. Concurrent Engineering (CE) enables the integration of design with manufacturing to permit trades based not only on product performance, but also on other criteria not easily evaluated, such as producibility and support. A ...

Cellular Response to Surface Wettability Gradient on Microtextured Surafaces

A Artificial Intelligence in Computer-Aided Diagnosis

Professionals of the medical radiology area depend directly on the process of decision making in their daily activities. This process is mainly based on the analysis of a great amount of information obtained for the evaluation of radiographic images. Some studies demonstrate the great capacity of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) in support systems for diagnosis, mainly in applications as patter...

Superhydrophobic Friction Reduction Microtextured Surfaces

Superhydrophobic surfaces are surfaces with fluid contact angles larger than 150o. Superhydrophobicity can be achieved by chemically modifying the surface or introducing texturing which increases the real or effective area of the surface. In this work we focus on the latter approach. If the texturing leads to a Cassie nonwetting state, the surface can also exhibit drag reduction characteristics...

Wettability of Nanostructured Surfaces

There are many studies in literature concerning contact angle measurements on different materials/substrates. It is documented that textiles can be coated with multifunctional materials in form of thin films or nanoparticles to acquire character‐ istics that can improve the protection and comfort of the wearer. The capacity of oxide nanostructures to inhibit fungal development and neutralize ba...