Superhydrophobic surfaces: a review on fundamentals, applications, and challenges

J Jeevahan, M Chandrasekaran… - Journal of Coatings …, 2018‏ - Springer
Superhydrophobicity is the tendency of a surface to repel water drops. A surface is qualified
as a superhydrophobic surface only if the surface possesses a high apparent contact angle …

Advances in the research of carbon-, silicon-, and polymer-based superhydrophobic nanomaterials: Synthesis and potential application

Z Wang, Y Ren, F Wu, G Qu, X Chen, Y Yang… - Advances in colloid and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
With the rapid development of science and technology, superhydrophobic nanomaterials
have become one of the hot topics from various subjects. Due to their distinct properties …

Fabrication of a wearable flexible sweat pH sensor based on SERS-active Au/TPU electrospun nanofibers

M Chung, WH Skinner, C Robert… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Development of wearable sensing platforms is essential for the advancement of continuous
health monitoring and point-of-care testing. Eccrine sweat pH is an analyte that can be …

Bio-inspired strategies for anti-icing

J Lv, Y Song, L Jiang, J Wang - ACS nano, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
Undesired ice accumulation leads to severe economic issues and, in some cases, loss of
lives. Although research on anti-icing has been carried out for decades, environmentally …

Droplet mobility on lubricant-impregnated surfaces

JD Smith, R Dhiman, S Anand, E Reza-Garduno… - Soft Matter, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Non-wetting surfaces containing micro/nanotextures impregnated with lubricating liquids
have recently been shown to exhibit superior non-wetting performance compared to …

Durable superhydrophobic and superamphiphobic polymeric surfaces and their applications: A review

K Ellinas, A Tserepi, E Gogolides - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Wetting control is essential for many applications, such as self-cleaning, anti-icing, anti-
fogging, antibacterial action as well as anti-reflection and friction control. While significant …

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 …

Superhydrophobic surfaces developed by mimicking hierarchical surface morphology of lotus leaf

SS Latthe, C Terashima, K Nakata, A Fujishima - Molecules, 2014‏ - mdpi.com
The lotus plant is recognized as a 'King plant'among all the natural water repellent plants
due to its excellent non-wettability. The superhydrophobic surfaces exhibiting the famous …

Recent advances in superhydrophobic polymers for antireflective self-cleaning solar panels

N Cherupurakal, MS Mozumder, AHI Mourad… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Although progress has been made in materials possessing involving superhydrophobicity
(SH) and anti-reflectivity (AR), the challenge for their practical use remains their durability …

Highly durable superhydrophobic polydimethylsiloxane/silica nanocomposite surfaces with good self-cleaning ability

X Gong, S He - Acs Omega, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
In this work, we report that superhydrophobic coatings can be prepared by a simple spray-
coating technique using readily available materials such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) …