Advances in the Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Polymeric Surfaces
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films and Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 9918
Special Issue Editor
Interests: superhydrophobicity; water repellency; icephobicity; coating; polymers; biomimetics; micro-nanostructured surfaces; wetting and de-wetting; nanocomposites; polymer processing; chemical modification; smart materials
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Dear Colleagues,
As the number of studies related to the superhydrophobic surfaces is rapidly growing around the world, this Special Issue of Materials is to highlight the approaches that target the applications of such surfaces.
It is a well-established fact that for a material to possess superhydrophobic properties, it must have non-polar groups on its surface satisfying the chemical aspect as well as surface roughness in terms of physical effect of the surface. Therefore, superhydrophobic surfaces can be achieved by the appropriate choice of materials and surface roughness. Consequently, various methods are developed to create superhydrophobic surfaces.
Polymer materials have significantly lower surface free energy than the metallic materials. Moreover, they demonstrate excellent workability, temperature resistance, and high modulus of elasticity. Consequently, fabricating superhydrophobic polymeric surfaces has drawn the attention of many researchers. Superhydrophobic polymeric surfaces can be potentially used for a wide range of applications including, but not limited to, gene delivery, self-cleaning, fluidic drag reduction, wetting liquid transfer, non-micro fluidic channels, lab-on-a-chip devices, anti-icing, anti-bio-adhesion, and plastic containers that can be drained completely of liquid. Regarding the increased importance of the potential applications of superhydrophobic polymeric surfaces, this Special Issue is dedicated to the advances in fabrication of such surfaces.
This Special Issue covers all fabrication methods of superhydrophobic polymeric surfaces including, but not limited to, polymer molding processes such as injection molding and hot embossing, 3-D printing, plasma surface treatment, spray coating, electrospinning, spin coating, self-assembled monolayer (SAM) coating, lithography, and so on.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript including full papers, review papers, and short communications for this Special Issue of Materials. We are confident that with your precious contribution, this Special Issue can address a variety of new applications of superhydrophobic polymeric surfaces.
Prof. Reza Jafari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- superhydrophobicity
- micro-nanostructures
- anti-icing
- self-cleaning
- self-healing
- micro-nanostructured surfaces
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