Over the past decade, there have been many successful attempts at artificially reproducing
the surface structures found on natural superhydrophobic surfaces. The researchers have …

With the recent progress in nanotechnology and material engineering, nano-based coatings
have become multifunctional, smarter, efficient, versatile and durable. Superhydrophobic …

Passive anti-icing or icephobic superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted great interest due
to their potential multifaceted implications for the prevention and/or easy removal of …

Ice accretion has adverse effects on a range of commercial and residential activities. The
force required to remove ice from a surface is typically considered to scale with the iced …

Low cost, controlled crystallinity, chemical, and mechanical stability enable application of
polymers in energy, water, electronics, and biomedical industries. Recent studies have …

Thermal spraying has been present for over a century, being greatly refined and optimized
during this time. It has become nowadays a reliable and cost-efficient method to deposit …

Solar energy-based devices are protected using glass surfaces that need to be cleaned
periodically to maintain their desired optimum performance. If these devices are large and …

The initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) technique is an all‐dry method for designing
organic and hybrid polymers. Unlike methods utilizing liquids or line‐of‐sight arrival, iCVD …

Anti-icing coating is one of the recent hot topics in industrial applications as well as from the
academic viewpoint. Icing is one of the major problem on various substrates such as glass …

Laser texturing, involving the creation of patterns on material surfaces, is considered an
efficient and facile approach to fabricate hierarchical surface structures on various material …