The challenges, achievements and applications of submersible superhydrophobic materials

YA Mehanna, E Sadler, RL Upton… - Chemical Society …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Superhydrophobic materials have been widely reported throughout the scientific literature.
Their properties originate from a highly rough morphology and inherently water repellent …

Assessment and interpretation of surface wettability based on sessile droplet contact angle measurement: challenges and opportunities

CH Kung, PK Sow, B Zahiri… - Advanced Materials …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Surface wettability, a property that governs the interaction between the solid and liquid
phases, is central in various biological systems and technological applications. A typical …

Fast capillary waves on an underwater superhydrophobic surface

M Fauconnier, B Karunakaran… - Nature …, 2025‏ - nature.com
The propagation of interfacial waves in free and constrained conditions, such as deep and
shallow water, has been broadly studied over centuries. It is a common event that anyone …

Capturing wetting states in nanopatterned silicon

XM Xu, G Vereecke, C Chen, G Pourtois, S Armini… - Acs Nano, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
Spectacular progress in develo** advanced Si circuits with reduced size, along the track
of Moore's law, has been relying on necessary developments in wet cleaning of …

Measurement of effective wetting area at hydrophobic solid–liquid interface

D Zhang, S Takase, G Nagayama - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Hypotheses The effective wetting area, a parameter somewhat different from the apparent
contact area at solid–liquid interfaces, plays a significant role in surface wettability. However …

Evaporation of binary sessile drops: infrared and acoustic methods to track alcohol concentration at the interface and on the surface

P Chen, M Toubal, J Carlier, S Harmand… - Langmuir, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Evaporation of droplets of three pure liquids (water, 1-butanol, and ethanol) and four binary
solutions (5 wt% 1-butanol–water-based solution and 5, 25, and 50 wt% ethanol–water …

Superhydrophobic breakdown of nanostructured surfaces characterized in situ using ATR–FTIR

N Vrancken, S Sergeant, G Vereecke, G Doumen… - Langmuir, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
In situ characterization of the underwater stability of superhydrophobic micro-and
nanostructured surfaces is important for the development of self-cleaning and antifouling …

In-situ ATR-FTIR for dynamic analysis of superhydrophobic breakdown on nanostructured silicon surfaces

N Vrancken, J Li, S Sergeant, G Vereecke… - Scientific reports, 2018‏ - nature.com
Superhydrophobic surfaces are highly promising for self-cleaning, anti-fouling and anti-
corrosion applications. However, accurate assessment of the lifetime and sustainability of …

Preparation of a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/CaCO3 based superhydrophobic coating

Z Yuan, J Bin, M Wang, J Huang, C Peng, S **ng… - Surface and Coatings …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
In this work, a simple and easy way was developed to prepare a polydimethylsiloxane
(PDMS)/CaCO 3 based superhydrophobic coating. The obtained coating can be applied to …

Detection of liquid penetration of a micropillar surface using the quartz crystal microbalance

P Wang, J Su, M Shen, M Ruths, H Sun - Langmuir, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
A quantitative characterization of the wetting states of droplets on hydrophobic textured
surfaces requires direct measurement of the liquid penetration into surface cavities, which is …