Bioinspired marine antifouling coatings: Status, prospects, and future

H Jin, L Tian, W Bing, J Zhao, L Ren - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Marine biofouling has negatively affected human sailing since ancient times. Traditional
antifouling coatings were banned worldwide in 2003 due to their toxicity towards nontarget …

Nanoengineered materials for liquid–vapour phase-change heat transfer

HJ Cho, DJ Preston, Y Zhu, EN Wang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Liquid–vapour phase change is a useful and efficient process to transfer energy in nature,
as well as in numerous domestic and industrial applications. Relatively recent advances in …

Influence of surface roughness on contact angle hysteresis and spreading work

J Wang, Y Wu, Y Cao, G Li, Y Liao - Colloid and Polymer Science, 2020 - Springer
Surface roughness is an important factor that affects dynamic wetting behavior, which can
improve the surface hydrophobicity, so it is of great significance to obtain a better …

Tuning superhydrophobic nanostructures to enhance jumping-droplet condensation

MD Mulroe, BR Srijanto, SF Ahmadi, CP Collier… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
It was recently discovered that condensation growing on a nanostructured
superhydrophobic surface can spontaneously jump off the surface, triggered by naturally …

It's not a bug, it's a feature: functional materials in insects

TBH Schroeder, J Houghtaling, BD Wilts… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a
taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives …

Heat transfer through a condensate droplet on hydrophobic and nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces

S Chavan, H Cha, D Orejon, K Nawaz, N Singla… - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
Understanding the fundamental mechanisms governing vapor condensation on nonwetting
surfaces is crucial to a wide range of energy and water applications. In this paper, we …

Coalescence-induced nanodroplet jumping

H Cha, C Xu, J Sotelo, JM Chun, Y Yokoyama… - Physical Review …, 2016 - APS
Water vapor condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces has received much attention in
recent years due to the ability of such surfaces to shed microscale water droplets via …

Contaminant removal from nature's self-cleaning surfaces

S Perumanath, R Pillai, MK Borg - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many organisms in nature have evolved superhydrophobic surfaces that leverage water
droplets to clean themselves. While this ubiquitous self-cleaning process has substantial …

Enhanced jumping-droplet departure

MK Kim, H Cha, P Birbarah, S Chavan, C Zhong, Y Xu… - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
Water vapor condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces has received much attention in
recent years because of its ability to shed water droplets at length scales 3 decades smaller …

Self-cleaning of hydrophobic rough surfaces by coalescence-induced wetting transition

K Zhang, Z Li, M Maxey, S Chen, GE Karniadakis - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
The superhydrophobic leaves of a lotus plant and other natural surfaces with self-cleaning
function have been studied intensively for the development of artificial biomimetic surfaces …