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Oleksiy Myronyuk, Denys Baklan, Aleksej M. Rodin, Egidijus Vanagas and Zuo Yong
The eligibility of applying the Owens?Wendt approach to determining the free surface energy of liquid-repellent aluminum surfaces, with micro- and nanotextures formed by a femtosecond laser, was considered. This approach has been shown to be applicable u...
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Zhuoqi Duan, Zaixin Xie, Bao Zhou, Xiaobo Yang, Heng-Yong Nie and Yongmao Hu
Heritage buildings and monuments are mostly made from natural stone, which undergoes irreversible decay under outdoor conditions. The main reason for the contamination, degradation, and cracking of natural stones is water and oil permeation. Hence, modif...
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Osama Saber, Sajid Ali Ansari and Abdullah Aljaafari
Rational design of the micro-nanomorphology is highly desired for metal hydroxides to achieve overall high-performance electrodes for supercapacitor and energy storage applications. Here, in the current study, we have succeeded in controlling the morphol...
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Rocío Ariza, Belén Sotillo, Fernando Pavón, Ana Urbieta and Paloma Fernández
The investigated materials have great potential for integrated optoelectronic devices. The possibility to integrate them into the same material as optical resonator and light guide opens the door to the fabrication of highly compact devices.
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Tengfei Xiang, Zhong Lv, Feifei Wei, Jian Liu, Wei Dong, Cheng Li, Yingxuan Zhao and Depeng Chen
Superhydrophobic surfaces have drawn attention from scientists and engineers because of their extreme water repellency. More interestingly, these surfaces have also demonstrated an infinite influence on civil engineering materials. In this feature articl...
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Marco Laurenti and Valentina Cauda
Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films have been widely investigated due to their multifunctional properties, i.e., catalytic, semiconducting and optical. They have found practical use in a wide number of application fields. However, the presence of a compact micro...
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Jie Li, Wentao Yu, Deyin Zheng, Xin Zhao, Chang-Hwan Choi and Guangyi Sun
In this paper, we report a simple fabrication process of whole Teflon superhydrophobic surfaces, featuring high-aspect-ratio (>20) nanowire structures, using a hot embossing process. An anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane is used as the embossing mol...
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Yuyang Liu, Dong Song and Chang-Hwan Choi
This paper reports the application of superhydrophobic coatings on cotton fabrics and their functionalities for anti- and de-icing efficacy. Superhydrophobic cotton fabrics with different water-repellent properties have been achieved by decorating the su...
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