Surfaces and interfaces of biomimetic superhydrophobic materials /
Zhiguang Guo, Fuchao Yang.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 383 pages).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction for Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Materials -- Superhydrophobic Surfaces from Nature and Beyond Nature -- Advances in the Theory of Superhydrophobic Surfaces and Interfaces -- Fabrications of Noncoated Superhydrophobic Surfaces and Interfaces -- Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Nanocoatings: From Materials to Fabrications and to Applications -- Adhesion Behaviors on Superhydrophobic Surfaces and Interfaces -- Smart Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Materials with Switchable Wettability -- Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Materials Applied for Oil/Water Separation (I) -- Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Materials Applied for Oil/Water Separation (II) -- Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Materials Applied for Anti-icing/Frosting -- Conclusions and Outlook.
A comprehensive and systematic treatment that focuses on surfaces and interfaces phenomena inhabited in biomimetic superhydrophobic materials, offering new fundamentals and novel insights. As such, this new book covers the natural surfaces, fundamentals, fabrication methods and exciting applications of superhydrophobic materials, with particular attention paid to the smart surfaces that can show switchable and reversible water wettability under external stimuli, such as pH, temperature, light, solvents, and electric fields. It also includes recent theoretical advances of superhydrophobic surfaces with regard to the wetting process, and some promising breakthroughs to promote this theory. As a result, materials scientists, physicists, physical chemists, chemical engineers, and biochemists will benefit greatly from a deeper understanding of this topic.