In recent years, biomedical materials have been used in the response to the emergence of
medical infections that pose a serious threat to the health and life of patients. The …

Protection of ureteral stents against infections is a significant current challenge raised by
increasing the number of stentings and infections, microbial resistance to conventional …

Preparing super-hydrophobic surfaces with additive manufacturing (AM) and multi-step
processes improves corrosion resistance of Al alloys. But the incorporation of dissimilar …

The achievement of superamphiphobic material with ultralow sliding angles is a highly
worthwhile and challenging task because the current artificial superhydrophobicity can be …

Nowadays, the tremendous progress of nanotechnologies and materials science facilitates
the fabrication of universal and multifunctional superhydrophobic surfaces on a large scale …

Nanocomposite coatings based on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and silver phosphate (Ag
3 PO 4) nanoparticles were developed to achieve superhydrophobicity, antibacterial …

Nanocomposite coatings based on polydimethylsiloxane were developed by adding silver
phosphate and titania nanoparticles with a PDMS pre-layer for 316L stainless steel. FTIR …

Introducing Ag to the surface is a common means to obtain an antibacterial product.
However, the poor adhesion between coating and substrate often results in a non-durable …

In spite of the substantial interest and ongoing research in the field of superhydrophobicity,
the wide daily-life usability of extremely water repellent coatings is somehow impeded due …

Recently, the cicada-inspired nanostructured surfaces have attracted much interest because
they possess remarkable bactericidal ability. However, Gram-positive bacteria are less …