Liquid-repellent surfaces, such as superhydrophobic surfaces, superoleophobic surfaces,
and slippery liquid-infused surfaces, have drawn keen research interest from the …

Slippery liquid-infused porous surface (SLIPS) has attracted increasing interest in anti-icing,
anti-corrosion, anti-fouling, and surface omniphobicity, in view of its superior stability and …

Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) show remarkable liquid repellency, making
them useful for many coating applications. The outstanding repellency of SLIPS comes from …

Condensation is ubiquitous in nature and industry. Heterogeneous condensation on
surfaces is typified by the continuous cycle of droplet nucleation, growth, and departure …

Bioinspired smart functional surfaces have received increasing attention in recent years
owed to their tunable wettability and enhanced droplet transport suggesting them as …

Despite decades of research on promoting the dropwise condensation of steam, achieving
dropwise condensation of low surface tension liquids remains a challenge. The few coatings …

Measuring condensation heat transfer and its associated heat transfer coefficient is not
trivial. Rigorous measurements require careful experimental design and tradeoff studies to …

Wetting plays a major role in the close interactions between liquids and solid surfaces,
which can be tailored by modifying the chemistry as well as the structures of the surfaces' …

Fouling and accretion have negative impacts on a plethora of processes. To mitigate
heterogeneous nucleation of a foulant, lowering the surface energy and reducing surface …

Phase change slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (PC-SLIPSs) are presented with
emphasis on surface wetting characteristics and droplet dynamics influencing the water …