Background In recent years, nanotechnology has been playing an important role in
designing smart fabrics. Nanomaterials have been employed to introduce in a sustainable …

Over the past decade, there have been many successful attempts at artificially reproducing
the surface structures found on natural superhydrophobic surfaces. The researchers have …

Increasing customer demand for durable and functional apparel manufactured in a
sustainable manner has created an opportunity for nanomaterials to be integrated into textile …

Superhydrophobicity is of interest for practical applications such as water repellency, self-
cleaning, stain resistance, antibacterial properties, and oil–water separation. In this work, a …

In recent years, nanotechnology (NT) has proved to be an interdisciplinary research field,
and has enlarged its scope of applications in versatile areas of human endeavor. The quests …

The need to transition to more sustainable and renewable technology has resulted in a
focus on cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) and nanocrystals (CNCs) as one of the materials of the …

This review summarizes the key topics in the field of large-area fabrication of
superhydrophobic surfaces, concentrating on substrates that have been used in commercial …

Prolonging the lifetime of superhydrophobic surfaces is required so that the materials can be
used practically. Thus, great efforts have been made in designing surfaces that maintain …

The purpose of this paper is to propose a facile, green and low-cost approach of the
preparation of superhydrophobic cotton textiles, which can be fabricated with fluorinated TiO …

Cotton with superhydrophobic and superoleophilic properties had been successfully
fabricated for application in the field of oil/water separation by the combination of SiO 2 …