Superhydrophilic, Superhydrophobic, and Slippery Surfaces
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Materials Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 1634
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface engineering; coatings; roughness; corrosion; wettability; biomaterials; materials science
Interests: corrosion; concrete; acoustic emission; materials science
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Superhydrophilic, Superhydrophobic, and Slippery Surfaces”.
Exploring, controlling, and modifying the wettability of materials can widen their scope in various applications and improve their compatibility with different environments. Surface functionalization through the texturing or coating deposition has become prolific in recent years. These functionalized surfaces span the gamut of disciplines from medicine to science to engineering.
This Special Issue aims to collect the most significant developments in surface and interface engineering aimed to enhance materials’ surface performances in aggressive environments and demanding contact conditions.
Experimental, numerical, and theoretical research on anti-wetting and super-wetting surfaces prepared by different techniques on a variety of substrates, such as metallic, inorganic, organic, and composites is welcomed.
The scope of this Special Issue will serve as a forum for original research and review articles based on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Superhydrophobic, superolophobic, superhydrophilic, and omniphobic surfaces, coatings and films.
- Recent advancement in multi-functional organic, inorganic and hybrid surfaces.
- Surface texturing and functionalization.
- Durability of functionalized surfaces and degradation mechanisms by wear, corrosion, weathering, etc.
- Smart and self-healing surfaces.
- Bioinspired functional surfaces.
Dr. Amani Khaskhoussi
Prof. Dr. Edoardo Proverbio
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- hydrophobicity
- hydrophilicity
- self-assembly
- slippery surfaces
- coatings
- thin films
- wetting mechanisms
- functional materials
- surface texture
