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Maria Cannio, Dino Norberto Boccaccini, Stefano Caporali and Rosa Taurino
Superhydrophobic materials, known for their exceptional water-repellent properties, have found widespread applications in diverse fields such as self-cleaning surfaces, anti-icing coatings, and water-resistant textiles. In recent years, researchers have ...
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Hussein Ali Hussein, Sabah Ibrahim Wais and Khedir R. Khedir
In this study, superhydrophobic surfaces were developed by using a simple and environmentally friendly technique. The nano-network of candle soot (CS) as the byproduct of incomplete combustion of paraffin candle was directly coated onto both smooth and m...
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Christopher M. Collins and Md. Safiuddin
A universal infrastructural issue is wetting of surfaces; millions of dollars are invested annually for rehabilitation and maintenance of infrastructures including roadways and buildings to fix the damages caused by moisture and frost. The biomimicry of ...
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Zhuoqi Duan, Zaixin Xie, Bao Zhou, Xiaobo Yang, Heng-Yong Nie and Yongmao Hu
Heritage buildings and monuments are mostly made from natural stone, which undergoes irreversible decay under outdoor conditions. The main reason for the contamination, degradation, and cracking of natural stones is water and oil permeation. Hence, modif...
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Qiang Li, Hongming Liang, Jinlong Song, Chenguang Guo and Jinbao Tang
High stability and transparent superhydrophobic coating on a glass substrate that can effectively repel the wetting dust as a self-cleaning property are beneficial traits for solving the decrease in optical lens clarity in an unmanned underground mining ...
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Muhammad Ahsan Iqbal, Humaira Asghar and Michele Fedel
A protective CoAl-layered double hydroxide (LDH) thin film was developed directly on the aluminum substrate. Further, the low-surface-energy molecules (1H, 1H, 2H, 2H perfluorododecyl trichlorosilane) were incorporated inside the LDH network through an a...
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Tengfei Xiang, Zhong Lv, Feifei Wei, Jian Liu, Wei Dong, Cheng Li, Yingxuan Zhao and Depeng Chen
Superhydrophobic surfaces have drawn attention from scientists and engineers because of their extreme water repellency. More interestingly, these surfaces have also demonstrated an infinite influence on civil engineering materials. In this feature articl...
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Virginija Jankauskaite, Pranas Narmontas and Algirdas Lazauskas
The properties of a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface were modified by a one-step deposition of plasma polymerized hexamethyldisilazane (pp-HMDS) by the arc discharge method. Scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and Fourier-transform ...
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Yunhua He, Yuling Yang, Xinliang Guo and Huanhuan Xia
Pollution flashover accidents pose a great threat to the safe and stable operation of a power system, and superhydrophobic materials have broad application prospects in the field of pollution flashover prevention of the external insulation of transmissio...
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Hao-Kai Peng, Yanting Wang, Ting-Ting Li, Ching-Wen Lou, Qi He and Jia-Horng Lin
Electromagnetic pollution interferes with electronic equipment in proximity and jeopardizes human health, which urges the development of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials. It is urgent to develop electromagnetic interference (EMI) sh...
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