Through billions of years of evolution and natural selection, biological systems have
developed strategies to achieve advantageous unification between structure and bulk …

The amazing adhesion of gecko pads to almost any kind of surfaces has inspired a very
active research direction over the last decade: the investigation of how geckos achieve this …

Multiscale, hierarchically patterned surfaces, such as lotus leaves, butterfly wings, adhesion
pads of gecko lizards are abundantly found in nature, where microstructures are usually …

Recent innovations in the area of micro-and nanofabrication have created a unique
opportunity for patterning surfaces with features with lateral dimensions spanning over the …

A robust superhydrophobic and superoleophobic surface is demonstrated. On a large-size
template of the transparent polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer surface, perfectly …

First Self-Contained Source Entirely Dedicated to Nanocarbons Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
attract a good deal of attention for their electronic, mechanical, optical, and chemical …

Superhydrophobicity is obtained on photolithographically structured silicon surfaces
consisting of flat-top pillars after a perfluorosilanization treatment. Systematic static contact …

We report a simple and versatile approach to creating a highly transparent
superhydrophobic surface with dual-scale roughness on the nanoscale. 3 …

The transition between the Cassie and Wenzel wetting regimes has been observed under
vertical vibration of a water drop placed on a rough micrometrically scaled polymer pattern …

Polymer nanocomposites have been an area of active research for the past 20 years. Of all
potential fillers for polymer nanocomposites, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are of particular …