Because undesired surface icing can cause tremendous losses to human life and property,
innovative methods of anti-icing must be exploited urgently. Recent increasing studies …

Anti-icing/icephobic coatings, typically applied in the form of surface functional materials, are
considered to be an ideal selection to solve the icing issues faced by daily life and industrial …

Hybrid organic–inorganic materials are attracting enormous interest in materials science
due to the combination of multiple advantageous properties of both organic and inorganic …

Preventing icing on exposed surfaces is important for life and technology. While suppressing
ice nucleation by surface structuring and local confinement is highly desirable and yet to be …

Ice accumulation is a thorny problem which may inflict serious damage even disasters in
many areas, such as aircraft, power line maintenance, offshore oil platform and locators of …

Superhydrophobic coatings have great potential applications in protecting metallic
substrates due to their excellent water-repellency and high corrosion resistance, however …

This study used a CuSO 4/H 2 O 2 catalyst to accelerate the oxidation and polymerization of
dopamine in solution to facilitate the rapid deposition of polydopamine (PDA) onto a …

In this study, a facile and detailed strategy to fabricate superhydrophobic aluminum surfaces
with controllable adhesion by femtosecond laser ablation is presented. The influences of key …

The applications of superhydrophobic coatings in daily life are receiving increasing
attention. Here, we report a general approach for preparing superhydrophobic coatings with …

The corrosion can be widely found in metal materials, which greatly restricts the utilization of
metal. Super-hydrophobic coating, known as a material surface with a contact angle greater …