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 …

Oil sorbents play a very important part in the remediation processes of oil spills. To enhance
the oil‐sorption properties and simplify the oil‐recovery process, various advanced oil …

Nature has developed materials, objects, and processes that function from the macroscale to
the nanoscale. The emerging field of biomimetics allows one to mimic biology or nature to …

Superhydrophobic nanocoatings, a combination of nanotechnology and superhydrophobic
surfaces, have received extraordinary attention recently, focusing both on novel preparation …

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 …

Inspired by the self-cleaning and water-repellent properties of plants and animals in the
natural world, superhydrophobic and superoleophobic materials develop quickly, and are of …

A superhydrophobic surface is a surface with a water contact angle close to or higher than
150°. In this feature article, we review the historical and present research on …

Research into extreme water-repellent surfaces began many decades ago, although it was
only relatively recently that the term superhydrophobicity appeared in literature. Here we …

Non-wettable surfaces with high water contact angles (WCAs) and facile sliding of drops,
called superhydrophobic or ultrahydrophobic, have received tremendous attention in recent …

Illness as the result of ingesting bacterially contaminated foodstuffs represents a significant
annual loss of human quality of life and economic impact globally. Significant research …