Liquid-repellent surfaces, especially smooth solid surfaces with covalently grafted flexible
polymer brushes or alkyl monolayers, are the focus of an expanding research area. Surface …

BACKGROUND Surfaces that control solid, liquid, or vapor accretion have numerous
applications, including self-cleaning windows and solar panels; water and fog harvesting; …

Durable hydrophobic materials have attracted considerable interest in the last century.
Currently, the most popular strategy to achieve hydrophobic coating durability is through the …

Ice accumulation on outdoor structures can cause costly damage to this exposed
infrastructure. Research has therefore focused on means of protecting these surfaces from …

Liquid‐like surfaces (LLSs) with dynamic repellency toward various pollutants (eg, bacteria,
oil, and ice), have shown enormous potential in the fields of biology, environment, and …

Over the past decade, a new class of slippery, anti-adhesive surfaces known as slippery
covalently-attached liquid surfaces (SCALS) has emerged, characterized by low values of …

In this article, we develop a generalized and scalable statistical model for accurate
prediction of fouling resistance using commonly measured parameters of industrial heat …

Corrosion of metallic substrates is a problem for a variety of applications. Corrosion can be
mitigated with the use of an electrically insulating coating protecting the substrate. Thick …

Hydrophobic functionalized coatings have attracted widespread attention in fabric finishing
fields, which exhibit breathable properties and can significantly enhance wearer comfort …

Despite decades of research on promoting the dropwise condensation of steam, achieving
dropwise condensation of low surface tension liquids remains a challenge. The few coatings …