Investigations on superhydrophobic surfaces (SHS) are very interesting because of their
importance in many applications. One of the major applications of these SHS is to increase …

Oil sorbents play a very important part in the remediation processes of oil spills. To enhance
the oil‐sorption properties and simplify the oil‐recovery process, various advanced oil …

Membrane distillation (MD) has been identified as a promising technology to desalinate the
hypersaline wastewaters from fracking and other industries. However, conventional …

Photovoltaic (PV) installations in desert areas such as Middle East, Africa, four-season
countries and industrial areas suffers from loss in efficiency due to accumulation of dust …

A typical superhydrophobic (ultrahydrophobic) surface can repel water droplets from wetting
itself, and the contact angle of a water droplet resting on a superhydrophobic surface is …

The wetting transition from the Cassie–Baxter state to the Wenzel state on textured surfaces
was investigated. Nano-to microscale hexagonal pillared lattices were prepared by …

The barrier resistance and wettability of papers are commonly controlled by the application
of petroleum-based derivatives such as polyethylene, waxes and/or fluor-derivatives as …

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 …

Interfacial materials with special wettability have become a burgeoning research area in
materials science in the past decade. The unique surface properties of materials and …

This review article summarizes the key areas of self-cleaning coatings, primarily focusing on
various materials that are widely used in recent research and also in commercial …