Superhydrophobic surfaces: a review on fundamentals, applications, and challenges

J Jeevahan, M Chandrasekaran… - Journal of Coatings …, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Superoleophobic surfaces

J Yong, F Chen, Q Yang, J Huo, X Hou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Superoleophobicity is a phenomenon where the contact angles of various oil droplets with
low surface tension on a solid surface are larger than 150°. In the past few years, there has …

Recent advances of bioinspired functional materials with specific wettability: from nature and beyond nature

Y Sun, Z Guo - Nanoscale Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Through 3.7 billion years of evolution and natural selection, plants and animals in nature
have ingeniously fulfilled a broad range of fascinating functions to achieve optimized …

Bioinspired superwettability electrospun micro/nanofibers and their applications

L Hou, N Wang, J Wu, Z Cui, L Jiang… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by the self‐cleaning phenomenon in nature biology, superwettable materials
systems have been increasingly studied by multidisciplinary scientists in past two decades …

Superhydrophobic surfaces developed by mimicking hierarchical surface morphology of lotus leaf

SS Latthe, C Terashima, K Nakata, A Fujishima - Molecules, 2014 - mdpi.com
The lotus plant is recognized as a 'King plant'among all the natural water repellent plants
due to its excellent non-wettability. The superhydrophobic surfaces exhibiting the famous …

Superhydrophobic surfaces and coatings by electrochemical anodic oxidation and plasma electrolytic oxidation

VS Saji - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The review provides a comprehensive account of superhydrophobic surfaces fabricated by
electrochemical anodic oxidation (anodization). First, reported works on superhydrophobic …

Progess in superhydrophobic surface development

P Roach, NJ Shirtcliffe, MI Newton - Soft matter, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Research into extreme water-repellent surfaces began many decades ago, although it was
only relatively recently that the term superhydrophobicity appeared in literature. Here we …

Superhydrophobic surfaces by electrochemical processes

T Darmanin, ET de Givenchy, S Amigoni… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This review is an exhaustive representation of the electrochemical processes reported in the
literature to produce superhydrophobic surfaces. Due to the intensive demand in the …

Lotus leaf inspired antiadhesive and antibacterial gauze for enhanced infected dermal wound regeneration

S Li, A Chen, Y Chen, Y Yang, Q Zhang, S Luo… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Gauze is the leading dressing for wound management. However, infection and tissue
adhesion pose serious challenges to the application of gauzes. Herein, inspired by the self …

Biomimetic artificial surfaces quantitatively reproduce the water repellency of a lotus leaf

V Zorba, E Stratakis, M Barberoglou… - Advanced …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Artificially structured surfaces possessing hierarchical micro‐and nanostructures are
prepared with a one‐step production process. These surfaces, exhibiting controlled dual …