Superhydrophobic surfaces hold great prospects for extremely diverse applications owing to
their water repellence property. The essential feature of superhydrophobicity is micro-/nano …

As an important research area, the development of antibacterial materials has attracted
extensive interest from researchers. Typical antibacterial materials involve the use of …

Standard solar cells heat up under sunlight. The resulting increased temperature of the solar
cell has adverse consequences on both its efficiency and its reliability. We introduce a …

The interest in superhydrophobic surfaces has grown exponentially over recent decades.
Since the lotus leaf dual hierarchical structure was discovered, researchers have …

Nature has developed materials, objects, and processes that function from the macroscale to
the nanoscale. The emerging field of biomimetics allows one to mimic biology or nature to …

Nature has developed materials, objects and processes that function from the macroscale to
the nanoscale. These have gone through evolution over 3.8 Gyr. The emerging field of …

Superhydrophobic surfaces exhibit extreme water-repellent properties. These surfaces with
high contact angle and low contact angle hysteresis also exhibit a self-cleaning effect and …

Prevention of ice accretion and adhesion on surfaces is relevant to many applications,
leading to improved operation safety, increased energy efficiency, and cost reduction …

Biological surfaces provide multifunctional interfaces to their environment. More than 400
million years of land plants evolution led to a large diversity of functional biological surface …

The superhydrophobic and self-cleaning leaves of Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera, Gaertn.) have
been used as a model for the development of artificial biomimetic surfaces. The hierarchical …