A review on fundamentals, constraints and fabrication techniques of superhydrophobic coatings

A Hooda, MS Goyat, JK Pandey, A Kumar… - Progress in Organic …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, scientific communities and coating manufacturers have
presented superhydrophobic coatings for various applications such as automotive, marine …

Surface nanobubbles and nanodroplets

D Lohse, X Zhang - Reviews of modern physics, 2015‏ - APS
Surface nanobubbles are nanoscopic gaseous domains on immersed substrates which can
survive for days. They were first speculated to exist about 20 years ago, based on stepwise …

Cellular fluidics

NA Dudukovic, EJ Fong, HB Gemeda, JR DeOtte… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
The natural world provides many examples of multiphase transport and reaction processes
that have been optimized by evolution. These phenomena take place at multiple length and …

Recent advances in designing superhydrophobic surfaces

E Celia, T Darmanin, ET de Givenchy, S Amigoni… - Journal of colloid and …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The interest in superhydrophobic surfaces has grown exponentially over recent decades.
Since the lotus leaf dual hierarchical structure was discovered, researchers have …

Wetting and spreading

D Bonn, J Eggers, J Indekeu, J Meunier, E Rolley - Reviews of modern physics, 2009‏ - APS
Wetting phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and technology. A solid substrate exposed to
the environment is almost invariably covered by a layer of fluid material. In this review, the …

Adhesion phenomena in bonded joints

A Baldan - International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Adhesive bonding is a key joining technology in many industrial sectors including the
automotive and aerospace industries, biomedical applications, and microelectronics …

Evaporation of pure liquid sessile and spherical suspended drops: A review

HY Erbil - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2012‏ - Elsevier
A sessile drop is an isolated drop which has been deposited on a solid substrate where the
wetted area is limited by a contact line and characterized by contact angle, contact radius …

Long-scale evolution of thin liquid films

A Oron, SH Davis, SG Bankoff - Reviews of modern physics, 1997‏ - APS
Macroscopic thin liquid films are entities that are important in biophysics, physics, and
engineering, as well as in natural settings. They can be composed of common liquids such …

Cylindrical molecular brushes: Synthesis, characterization, and properties

SS Sheiko, BS Sumerlin, K Matyjaszewski - Progress in Polymer Science, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Brush-like macromolecules are unique polymer molecules whose conformation and
physical properties are controlled by steric repulsion of densely grafted side chains …

The dynamics of the piezo inkjet printhead operation

H Wijshoff - Physics reports, 2010‏ - Elsevier
The operation of a piezo inkjet printhead involves a chain of processes in many physical
domains at different length scales. The final goal is the formation of droplets of all kinds of …