Wetting behaviors of structured metal surfaces have received considerable attention due to
the wide range of applications for commercial, industrial, and military uses as well as …

Laser surface texturing (LST) is a non‐contact manufacturing process for fabricating
functional surfaces in a manner that improves the corresponding wettability, and is widely …

Laser surface texturing is a relatively well-known technique for enhancing the surface
topography of engineering materials. Lately, several surface texturing approaches like …

Control of surface wettability is very important and useful for many industrial applications,
and can be realized by controlling surface chemistry and microstructure simultaneously …

Superhydrophobic metallic surfaces with a water contact angle greater than 150° have
attracted considerable attention in both fundamental research and industrial applications …

Extreme wetting activities of laser-textured metal alloys have received significant interest
due to their superior performance in a wide range of commercial applications and …

In this paper, a superhydrophobic surface with mechanical durability was prepared on 6061
aluminum (Al) alloy by combining laser surface texturing (LST) and micro-arc oxidation …

Despite their excellent strength-to-weight ratio, wider use of magnesium (Mg) alloys for light-
weight applications is limited by their poor corrosion resistance, especially in chloride …

An innovative laser-assisted functionalization (LAF) method is presented in this work to
fabricate a superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic patterned surface on a large-area metal …

Fog collection holds promise for addressing water shortage. However, the conventional
fabrication of fog collection devices, normally chemical methods, suffers many challenges …