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Filomena Piscitelli and Annalisa Volpe
Corrosion is a persistent challenge in the aviation industry, affecting the safety, performance, and maintenance costs of aircraft. While composite materials have gained widespread use due to their lightweight properties and corrosion resistance, certain...
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Maria Cannio, Dino Norberto Boccaccini, Stefano Caporali and Rosa Taurino
Superhydrophobic materials, known for their exceptional water-repellent properties, have found widespread applications in diverse fields such as self-cleaning surfaces, anti-icing coatings, and water-resistant textiles. In recent years, researchers have ...
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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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Lavanya Muthugoundenpalayam Rajendran, Johnpaul Vincent, Balasundaram Natarajan and Venkatesan Govindan
Concrete must be a hydrophilic compound that is easily fabricated by nature. At the nanoscale, mechanical and chemical reactions alter the quality of cement-based substances. Continuous sprinkling of nano-silica solution synthesised with minimal surface ...
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Wensheng Zhong, Shilin Hu, Manyuan Wu, Bichen Xiong, Qiaowen Liu, Qingqing Jia, Yaming Liu and Hongwei Liao
Superhydrophobic surfaces have received increasing attention due to their excellent water repellency, but the fragile stability of superhydrophobic coatings has been a huge hindrance to their applications. In this work, we constructed a layer of mullite ...
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Nadia Khan, Zahra A. Tabasi, Jiabin Liu, Baiyu H. Zhang and Yuming Zhao
The growing concerns about climate changes and environmental pollution have galvanized considerable research efforts in recent years to develop effective and innovative remediation technologies for contaminated soils and water caused by industrial and do...
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Ange Nsilani Kouediatouka, Qiang Ma, Qi Liu, Fagla Jules Mawignon, Faisal Rafique and Guangneng Dong
Surface texture is regarded as a promising solution for enhancing the tribological features of industrial materials due to its outstanding benefits, such as minimization of the contact area, enhancement of the load bearing capacity, storage of the lubric...
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Mitsugu Hasegawa, Haruka Endo, Katsuaki Morita, Hirotaka Sakaue and Shigeo Kimura
A hybrid anti-/de-icing system combining a superhydrophobic coating and an electrothermal heater is an area of active research for aircraft icing prevention. The heater increases the temperature of the interaction surface between impinging droplets and a...
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Michele Ferrari, Paolo Piccardo, Justine Vernet and Francesca Cirisano
One of the most important factors determining a significant reduction in optical devices? efficiency is the accumulation of soiling substances such as dust, which, especially in solar power plants, implies higher costs and materials ageing. The use of su...
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Muhammad Ahsan Iqbal, Humaira Asghar and Michele Fedel
A protective CoAl-layered double hydroxide (LDH) thin film was developed directly on the aluminum substrate. Further, the low-surface-energy molecules (1H, 1H, 2H, 2H perfluorododecyl trichlorosilane) were incorporated inside the LDH network through an a...
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