Superhydrophobic Coatings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 106497
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Interests: coatings; surfaces and interfaces; wetting and dewetting; superhydrophobicity and superomniphobicity; water repellency and self-cleaning; nanostructured materials; biomimetics; nanocomposites; nanoparticles; polymers; archaeological chemistry; textile history; conservation science
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Dear Colleagues,
The bioinspired surfaces of special wetting properties, from superhydrophobicity to superhydrophilicity and superoleophobicity to superoleophilicity, have recently attracted considerable attention. Among these special surfaces, supehydrophobic surfaces (which can be either water-repellent or water-adhesive) can have numerous potential applications and therefore deserve, and have attracted, special attention.
Hundreds of different methods have been devised and applied to produce hierarchically structured, superhydrophobic surfaces such as, for instance, sol-gel, controlled nanoparticle embedding into polymer matrices (composites), wet chemical reaction, electrochemical deposition, plasma etching, chemical vapor deposition, lithography, electrospinning, solution immersion, emulsion, and so on.
Coatings produced using the aforementioned methods is a usual strategy to induce superhydrophobicity to various surfaces-substrates.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Anti-sticking, anti-contamination for any outdoor surface (buildings, automobiles, monuments)
- Stain resistant clothing
- Anti-biofouling paints (e.g., for boats)
- Anti-icing i.e. anti-sticking of snow for aircrafts, wind generators, antennas, windows etc.
- Self-cleaning windshields for automobiles
- Microfluidics, i.e., droplet manipulation and controlled transport of small volumes of liquids; single-molecule spectroscopy
- Metal refining
- Lab-on-a-chip devices
- Membranes, e.g., water harvesting, cleaning of water
Prof. Dr. Ioannis Karapanagiotis Manuscript Submission Information
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