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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 353, Issue 2, Pages 335-355Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.08.047
Keywords
Superhydrophobic; Superhydrophilic; Biomimetic; Bio-inspired surfaces; Contact angle; Self-cleaning; Lotus effect
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- Belgian federal government (Belspo) [PAI-IUAP (6/17)]
- National 973 Project in China [2007CB607601]
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Nature is the creation of aesthetic functional systems, in which many natural materials have vagarious structures. Inspired from nature, such as lotus leaf, butterfly' wings, showing excellent superhydrophobicity, scientists have recently fabricated a lot of biomimetic superhydrophobic surfaces by virtue of various smart and easy routes. Whilst, many examples, such as lotus effect, clearly tell us that biomimicry is dissimilar to a simple copying or duplicating of biological structures. In this feature article, we review the recent studies in both natural superhydrophobic surfaces and biomimetic superhydrophobic surfaces, and highlight some of the recent advances in the last four years, including the various smart routes to construct rough surfaces, and a lot of chemical modifications which lead to superhydrophobicity. We also review their functions and applications to date. Finally, the promising routes from biomimetic superhydrophobic surfaces in the next are proposed. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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