Journal
BIOFOULING
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 107-115Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08927010600562328
Keywords
biofouling; wetting; super-hydrophobicity; contact angle; Lotus effect
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The theory of wetting on super-hydrophobic surfaces is presented and discussed, within the general framework of equilibrium wetting and contact angles. Emphasis is put on the implications of super-hydrophobicity to the prevention of biofouling. Two main lines of thought are discussed, viz. i) mirror imaging'' of the Lotus effect, namely designing a surface that repels biological entities by being super-hydrophilic, and ii) designing a surface that minimises the water-wetted area when submerged in water (by keeping an air film between the water and the surface), so that the suspended biological entities have a low probability of encountering the solid surface.
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