In this work, recent developments regarding design and preparation of surfaces to modify their wettability behavior by switching between the superhydrophobic and the superhydrophilic state under physical and chemical stimuli are summarized. The complex systems and the strategies developed in nature are investigated as a fundamental support considering the potential applications of these two superstates' in basic research and in a range of industrial fields, adapting these properties for engineering new and efficient devices or improving existent techniques.

Switching surface wettability properties

Ferrari;Michele
2014

Abstract

In this work, recent developments regarding design and preparation of surfaces to modify their wettability behavior by switching between the superhydrophobic and the superhydrophilic state under physical and chemical stimuli are summarized. The complex systems and the strategies developed in nature are investigated as a fundamental support considering the potential applications of these two superstates' in basic research and in a range of industrial fields, adapting these properties for engineering new and efficient devices or improving existent techniques.
2014
superhydrophilic
superhydrophobic
wettability
wetting
switch
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