Performance of Low-Adhesion Metal-Based Surfaces
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 589
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fabrication and development of metal-based surfaces with low adhesion is becoming a topic of intense research due to the growing number of potential applications in which they are involved. Producing non-wettable or nonstick metal-based surfaces is especially challenging because of two reasons: Metal surfaces are mostly hydrophilic, and they must operate under wearing conditions. Thus, the incorporation of hydrophobic, superhydrophobic or slippery properties to metal surfaces for industrial applications requires the modification of its inherent hydrophilicity by means of durable low adhesion coatings. Although the preparation of this kind of coatings has been extensively addressed in literature, their direct performance in real-life applications has been scarcely reported.
This Special Issue on “Performance of Metal-Based low-adhesion Surfaces” intends to address this issue, collecting contributions by well-experienced researchers of the coating field from academia and industry. In particular, this Special Issue is focused on the analysis of the wetting properties, durability, and performance of functionalized metal-based surfaces aimed at:
- Antisticking/self-cleaning
- Anticorrosion
- Anti-biofouling
- Anti-icing
- Drag reduction
- High-efficiency light absorption
- Heat-transfer efficiency
- Super-amphiphobic
- Microfluidics/lab-on-a-chip devices
- Water recovery
Dr. Francisco Javier Montes Ruiz-Cabello
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- superhydrophobic metal surfaces
- anti-icing
- anti-biofouling
- anticorrosion
- antistick
- drag reduction
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