Hydrophobic Materials: Liquid-Infused Smooth Coating with Transparency, Super-Durability, and Extraordinary Hydrophobicity (Adv. Funct. Mater. 37/2016)

Materials and Wireless Microfluidic Systems for Electronics Capable of Chemical Dissolution on Demand (Adv. Funct. Mater. 92015)

Approaching super-hydrophobicity from cellulosic materials: A Review

The development of super-hydrophobic surfaces has been inspired by natural systems and uses a number of novel (nano) technologies. Superhydrophobicity has stimulated much scientific and industrial interest because of applications in water repellency, selfcleaning, friction reduction, antifouling, etc. Despite its inherent hydrophilicity, cellulose has unparalleled advantages as a substrate for ...

مقایسه فوق آب‌گریزی و رفتار خوردگی پوشش‌های میکرو- نانو ساختار نیکل و نیکل- کبالت بر روی زیرلایه مس

Super-hydrophobic nickel and nickel-cobalt alloy coatings with micro-nano structure were successfully electrodeposited on copper substrates with one and two steps electrodeposition. Surface morphology, wettability and corrosion  resistance were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, water contact angle measurements, electrochemical impedanc spectroscopy (EIS) and potentiodynamic...

Adaptive fluid-infused porous films with tunable transparency and wettability.

Materials that adapt dynamically to environmental changes are currently limited to two-state switching of single properties, and only a small number of strategies that may lead to materials with continuously adjustable characteristics have been reported. Here we introduce adaptive surfaces made of a liquid film supported by a nanoporous elastic substrate. As the substrate deforms, the liquid fl...

Metamaterials: Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials under Tension (Adv. Mater. 39/2015).

By exploiting snap-through instabilities, D. Pasini and co-workers design a damage-tolerant mechanical metamaterial that snaps sequentially under tension, thereby accommodating a very large deformation up to 150%. On page 5931, they describe how the nonlinear mechanical response of the metamaterial can be robustly programmed by tuning the architecture of its unit cell.