[HTML][HTML] Superhydrophobic and superoleophilic membranes for oil-water separation application: A comprehensive review

S Rasouli, N Rezaei, H Hamedi, S Zendehboudi… - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Superhydrophobic and superoleophilic (SHSO) membranes have gained remarkable
attention, particularly in selective and efficient oil-water separation applications. This paper …

Superhydrophobic surfaces: insights from theory and experiment

S Parvate, P Dixit, S Chattopadhyay - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biomimetic nanosurfaces with distinct wettability and versatility have found special
enthusiasm in both fundamental research and industrial applications. With the advent of …

Nano-optical designs for high-efficiency monolithic perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells

P Tockhorn, J Sutter, A Cruz, P Wagner, K Jäger… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells offer the possibility of overcoming the power
conversion efficiency limit of conventional silicon solar cells. Various textured tandem …

Recent developments and practical feasibility of polymer‐based antifouling coatings

AMC Maan, AH Hofman, WM de Vos… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While nature has optimized its antifouling strategies over millions of years, synthetic
antifouling coatings have not yet reached technological maturity. For an antifouling coating …

Introduction to tribology

B Bhushan, PL Ko - Appl. Mech. Rev., 2003 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This is a really excellent textbook as well as a reference book on the numerical
implementation and computer programing of the direct boundary element method as applied …

Natural and biomimetic artificial surfaces for superhydrophobicity, self-cleaning, low adhesion, and drag reduction

B Bhushan, YC Jung - Progress in Materials Science, 2011 - Elsevier
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 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 …

Edible films from chitosan-gelatin: Physical properties and food packaging application

H Wang, F Ding, L Ma, Y Zhang - Food Bioscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution problems caused by plastic-based packaging promote alternative
sustainable solutions to be imminent. Chitosan and gelatin are attracting great attentions in …

Nature-inspired micropatterns

Y Wang, G Zheng, N Jiang, G Ying, Y Li, X Cai… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Micropatterned materials have developed in nature over 3.8 billion years, with remarkable
performance. Nature inspiration is the process of understanding biological mechanisms and …

Recent developments in bio-inspired special wettability

K Liu, X Yao, L Jiang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Nature is a school for scientists and engineers. After four and a half billion years of stringent
evolution, some creatures in nature exhibit fascinating surface wettability. Biomimetics …