Offshore oil spills and the discharge of oily effluents are not only damaging the economy but
also disturbs our aquatic and biotic environment. Since, the discovery of super-wetting …

The wettability of solid surfaces is a renewed old topic that has impacted most fields of
science and technology for a long time, from cave painting in the ancient to microfluidic …

Progress in materials science is associated with the development of nanomaterials in terms
of energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and low-cost methods. Since the use of tributyltin …

In recent years, the worldwide coating industries and scientific communities have introduced
superhydrophobic coatings with exceptional water repellency for marine, automotive, and …

Because of the environmental and economic casualties of biofouling on maritime navigation,
modern studies have been devoted toward formulating advanced nanoscale composites in …

Nanoscale metal oxide materials have been attracting much attention because of their
unique size-and dimensionality-dependent physical and chemical properties as well as …

This review gives an overview of recent advances in the potential applications of
superhydrophobic materials. Such properties are characterized by extremely high water …

Nature is the creation of aesthetic functional systems, in which many natural materials have
vagarious structures. Inspired from nature, such as lotus leaf, butterfly'wings, showing …

The growing interest in self-clean coatings owes to their low maintenance cost, high
durability, and immense potential applications. Such coatings, for instance, may offer useful …

Droplet motion control on slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) that mimics the
peristome surface of Nepenthes alata has promising applications in the fields of energy, lab …