Wettability transition for laser textured surfaces: a comprehensive review

AO Ijaola, EA Bamidele, CJ Akisin, IT Bello… - Surfaces and …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Roles of chemistry modification for laser textured metal alloys to achieve extreme surface wetting behaviors

A Samanta, Q Wang, SK Shaw, H Ding - Materials & design, 2020 - Elsevier
Wetting behaviors of structured metal surfaces have received considerable attention due to
the wide range of applications for commercial, industrial, and military uses as well as …

Design rules for laser‐treated icephobic metallic surfaces for aeronautic applications

V Vercillo, S Tonnicchia, JM Romano… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ice accretion on external aircraft surfaces due to the impact of supercooled water droplets
can negatively affect the aerodynamic performance and reduce the operational capability …

Superhydrophobic surfaces review: Functional application, fabrication techniques and limitations

K Manoharan, S Bhattacharya - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the years, researchers have been working to mimic the nature by inducing
superhydrophobic properties into a variety of material surfaces so that they exhibit non …

Fabrication and droplet impact performance of superhydrophobic Ti6Al4V surface by laser induced plasma micro-machining

Z Zhang, D Liu, Y Zhang, T Xue, Y Huang… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Titanium alloy Ti6Al4V super-hydrophobic surface plays a key role in enhancing the
water repellency and anti-condensation of the fuselage. In this study, laser-induced plasma …

Ultrafast fiber laser-induced fabrication of superhydrophobic and self-cleaning metal surfaces

SA Khan, GS Boltaev, M Iqbal, V Kim, RA Ganeev… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wetting properties of metal surfaces play important role in different practical and
fundamental applications. In this work we investigate the variation of wetting properties of …

Short and long term surface chemistry and wetting behaviour of stainless steel with 1D and 2D periodic structures induced by bursts of femtosecond laser pulses

G Giannuzzi, C Gaudiuso, R Di Mundo, L Mirenghi… - Applied Surface …, 2019 - Elsevier
We investigate the short and long term wettability of laser textured stainless steel samples in
order to better understand the interplay between surface topography and chemistry. Very …

[HTML][HTML] Tailoring the wettability of surface-textured copper using sub-THz bursts of femtosecond laser pulses

C Gaudiuso, F Fanelli, FP Mezzapesa, A Volpe… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, copper surfaces were textured with sub-Terahertz bursts of femtosecond pulses.
The wettability of Cu textured surfaces was investigated by measuring the static water …

Laser patterned titanium surfaces with superior antibiofouling, superhydrophobicity, self-cleaning and durability: Role of line spacing

SC Vanithakumari, CA Kumar, C Thinaharan… - Surface and Coatings …, 2021 - Elsevier
Superhydrophobic titanium surfaces with different line spacing (pitch) of 20, 50, 80 and 100
μm are fabricated using nanosecond laser patterning and their antibiofouling …

Topography versus chemistry–How can we control surface wetting?

SM Lößlein, F Mücklich, PG Grützmacher - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Wetting characterization and the production of engineered surfaces showing
distinct contact angles or spreading behavior is of major importance for many industrial and …