Robust superhydrophobicity: mechanisms and strategies

W Zhang, D Wang, Z Sun, J Song… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Superhydrophobic surfaces hold great prospects for extremely diverse applications owing to
their water repellence property. The essential feature of superhydrophobicity is micro-/nano …

Recent progress in the preparation, properties and applications of superhydrophobic nano-based coatings and surfaces: A review

P Nguyen-Tri, HN Tran, CO Plamondon… - Progress in organic …, 2019 - Elsevier
With the recent progress in nanotechnology and material engineering, nano-based coatings
have become multifunctional, smarter, efficient, versatile and durable. Superhydrophobic …

Durable radiative cooling against environmental aging

J Song, W Zhang, Z Sun, M Pan, F Tian, X Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To fight against global warming, subambient daytime radiative cooling technology provides
a promising path to meet sustainable development goals. To achieve subambient daytime …

Design of robust superhydrophobic surfaces

D Wang, Q Sun, MJ Hokkanen, C Zhang, FY Lin, Q Liu… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The ability of superhydrophobic surfaces to stay dry, self-clean and avoid biofouling is
attractive for applications in biotechnology, medicine and heat transfer,,,,,,,,–. Water droplets …

Machine learning enabled orthogonal camera goniometry for accurate and robust contact angle measurements

H Kabir, N Garg - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of surface wettability plays an integral role in physical, chemical,
and biological processes. However, the conventional fitting algorithms are not suitable for …

Moving superhydrophobic surfaces toward real-world applications

X Tian, T Verho, RHA Ras - Science, 2016 - science.org
Superhydrophobic surfaces have received rapidly increasing research interest since the late
1990s because of their tremendous application potential in areas such as self-cleaning and …

Wetting-regulated gas-involving (photo) electrocatalysis: biomimetics in energy conversion

G Liu, WSY Wong, M Kraft, JW Ager… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
(Photo) electrolysis of water or gases with water to species serving as industrial feedstocks
and energy carriers, such as hydrogen, ammonia, ethylene, propanol, etc., has drawn …

Recent development in the fabrication of self-healing superhydrophobic surfaces

EK Sam, DK Sam, X Lv, B Liu, X Xiao, S Gong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Some plants and insects exhibit superhydrophobicity in nature. Inspired by this, many
researchers have designed superhydrophobic surfaces by studying the structures of those …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of superhydrophobic ceramic membrane surface modification for oil-water separation

J Usman, MHD Othman, AF Ismail, MA Rahman… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
The discharge of oily wastewater and offshore oil spills contaminates the biotic and aquatic
environment and ultimately result in the destruction of the ecosystem. Recently, the …

From drop impact physics to spray cooling models: a critical review

J Breitenbach, IV Roisman, C Tropea - Experiments in Fluids, 2018 - Springer
Spray–wall interaction is an important process encountered in a large number of existing
and emerging technologies and is the underlying phenomenon associated with spray …