Over the past two decades, scientific communities and coating manufacturers have
presented superhydrophobic coatings for various applications such as automotive, marine …

Water penetration can cause severe performance deterioration and even failure of concrete
constructions through various degradation mechanisms, such as chemical erosion, dry-wet …

Surface wetting has a significant influence on the performance and applications of the
materials. The superhydrophobic surfaces have water repellency due to low surface energy …

Superhydrophobicity is the tendency of a surface to repel water drops. A surface is qualified
as a superhydrophobic surface only if the surface possesses a high apparent contact angle …

A composite membrane based on a novel strategy was prepared which using graphene
oxide (GO), UiO-66-NH 2 and polyacrylic acid (PAA) as basic materials on the surface of …

Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermally-driven technology that poses a lot of
promise in desalination, and water and wastewater treatment. Developments in membrane …

Some plants and insects exhibit superhydrophobicity in nature. Inspired by this, many
researchers have designed superhydrophobic surfaces by studying the structures of those …

Cellulose is the cheapest and mostly widespread green raw material on earth. Due to the
easy and versatile developed modification of cellulose, many cellulosic paper-based …

Synthetic superhydrophobic (SH) surfaces were developed after 1990s, and the number of
publications in this field is around 13 500 at present. However, the industrial production of …

In recent years, superhydrophobic materials have shown tremendous industrial application
value in many fields. Especially in the field of anti-corrosion, the superhydrophobic coating …