Superhydrophobicity on Hairy Surfaces

Viscous entrainment on hairy surfaces

Biomimetic graphene surfaces with superhydrophobicity and iridescence.

Triggered by the fantastic functions and bright appearance of biological systems in nature, enormous efforts have been devoted to biomimetic fabrication. For instance, butterfly wings and red rose petals have attracted increasing attention due to their excellent water repellency and splendid structural color. Consequently, colorful superhydrophobic surfaces have become a hot topic with signific...

The Superhydrophobicity of Polymer Surfaces: Recent Developments

Superhydrophobicity is the extreme water repellence of highly textured surfaces. The field of superhydrophobicity research has reached a stage where huge numbers of candidate treatments have been proposed and jumps have been made in theoretically describing them. There now seems to be a move to more practical concerns and to considering the demands of individual applications instead of more gen...

Wetting study of patterned surfaces for superhydrophobicity.

Superhydrophobic surfaces have considerable technological potential for various applications due to their extreme water-repellent properties. A number of studies have been carried out to produce artificial biomimetic roughness-induced hydrophobic surfaces. In general, both homogeneous and composite interfaces are possible on the produced surface. Silicon surfaces patterned with pillars of two d...

Hierarchically nanotextured surfaces maintaining superhydrophobicity under severely adverse conditions.

Superhydrophobic surfaces are highly desirable for a broad range of technologies and products affecting everyday life. Despite significant progress in recent years in understanding the principles of hydrophobicity, mostly inspired by surface designs found in nature, many man-made surfaces employ readily processable materials, ideal to demonstrate principles, but with little chance of survivabil...