Lubricant-Infused Nanoparticulate Coatings Assembled by Layer-by-Layer Deposition

© 2014 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 1 wileyonlinelibrary.com coatings on windows, lenses or solar cells, repellent or protective clothing, non-fouling marine vessels or biomedical devices, and anti-icing or drag-reducing surfaces. An ideal coating should ensure stable repellency, should be transparent in order not to affect color or transparency of the underlying substrate and should be able to be deposited in a simple process on materials regardless of their size, shape, or composition. The key diffi culty in creating such omniphobic coatings is to overcome the strong tendency of low-surface-tension organic liquids to wet surfaces [ 1,2 ] and the adsorption of organic contaminants (especially proteins, cells or bacteria) that can compromise the repellent properties. [ 3–5 ]