Superhydrophobic

Smart Surface Enables Advanced Manipulation of Droplets

August 16, 2017

UBC-developed smart surface offers fast and reversible surface wetting properties-from superhydrophobic (water-repellant) to superhydrophilic (water-attractive) using a small voltage that could be supplied by conventional batteries. For [more...]

Hydrophobic Nanostructures Keep Dry Underwater

September 1, 2015

By mimicking naturally-occurring nanostructures found in things like water striders, spiders and lotus leaves, scientists have created hydrophobic surfaces that could prove invaluable for everything from pipes to boats and submarines. Now [more...]

How To Cut A Vortex Into Slices

June 8, 2015

Rendering of two identical misaligned superhydrophobic walls decorated with no-slip (white) and partial-slip (colored) stripes (Image Credit: Physical Review E) A lot of problems associated with the mixing of the liquid in the [more...]

15 Awesome Surface Treatment Technologies in Daily Life

February 11, 2015

Wood surface treatment (All photo credits in this aritcle: Nanex Company) Treatments to protect wood, metal, glass or leather surfaces are nothing new. There have been countless items on the marketplace, including everything from waxes [more...]

New Laser-patterning Technique Turns Metals into Supermaterials

January 20, 2015

A femtosecond laser created detailed hierarchical structures in the metals, as shown in this SEM image of the platinum surface. (Image credit: The Guo Lab/University of Rochester) By zapping ordinary metals with femtosecond laser pulses [more...]

Microfluidic platforms with superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic channels

November 2, 2014

Megaridis and his team from University of Illinois at Chicago published a paper ” Wettability patterning for high-rate, pumpless fluid transport on open, non-planar microfluidic platforms” on Lab Chip ( 2014,14,1538-1550, [more...]