Special Issue “Anti-Adhesive Surfaces”

Special Issue

Special issue on constrained design of curves and surfaces

It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to act as guest editors for this special issue on Constrained Design of Curves and Surfaces (CDCS). We would like to thank the editors of JCAD for supporting our view that generating, analyzing and modifying shapes is a process usually driven by a variety of constraints, whose methodological, algorithmic and computational handling deserves to obtain autonomy...

Biomimetic and Bioinspired Anti-adhesive and Antimicrobial Surfaces

Macroand microfouling cause serious problems in many kinds of technical equipment. Consequently, there is great interest in the development of surfaces with anti-adhesive and antimicrobial properties. A range of surfaces with such properties exist in nature and artificial systems that mimic or are inspired by these natural systems could potentially be valuable technical surfaces. SmartMembranes...

Design of Hierarchically Sculptured Biological Surfaces with Anti-adhesive Properties

In many plant species sophisticated functions such as water repellence, reduction of particle adhesion and reduction of insect attachment are correlated to a hierarchically sculptured surface design. One prominent example is given by the hierarchically sculptured, self-cleaning surface of the lotus leave (Nelumbo nucifera). In plants hierarchy of surfaces is often realized by combining microstr...

Wet Adhesion and Adhesive Locomotion of Snails on Anti-Adhesive Non-Wetting Surfaces

Creating surfaces capable of resisting liquid-mediated adhesion is extremely difficult due to the strong capillary forces that exist between surfaces. Land snails use this to adhere to and traverse across almost any type of solid surface of any orientation (horizontal, vertical or inverted), texture (smooth, rough or granular) or wetting property (hydrophilic or hydrophobic) via a layer of mucu...