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 …

Passive anti-icing surfaces, or icephobic surfaces, are an area of great interest because of
their significant economic, energy and safety implications in the prevention and easy …

Despite their simplicity, water droplets manifest a wide spectrum of forms and dynamics,
which can be actuated using special texture at solid surfaces to achieve desired functions …

Liquid–vapour phase change is a useful and efficient process to transfer energy in nature,
as well as in numerous domestic and industrial applications. Relatively recent advances in …

Controlling dropwise condensation is fundamental to water-harvesting systems,,,
desalination, thermal power generation,,,,, air conditioning, distillation towers, and numerous …

Undesired ice accumulation leads to severe economic issues and, in some cases, loss of
lives. Although research on anti-icing has been carried out for decades, environmentally …

Synthetic superhydrophobic (SH) surfaces were developed after 1990s, and the number of
publications in this field is around 13 500 at present. However, the industrial production of …

Nanotextured superhydrophobic surfaces have received significant attention due to their
ability to easily shed liquid drops. However, water droplets have been shown to condense …

Self-propelled jumping drops are continuously removed from a condensing
superhydrophobic surface to enable a micrometric steady-state drop size. Here, we report …

Owing to advances in micro-and nanofabrication methods over the last two decades, the
degree of sophistication with which solid surfaces can be engineered today has caused a …