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List of works by Lichao Gao

"Artificial lotus leaf" prepared using a 1945 patent and a commercial textile

scientific article published in July 2006

(CH3)3SiCl/SiCl4 azeotrope grows superhydrophobic nanofilaments

scientific article

A commercially available perfectly hydrophobic material (thetaA/thetaR = 180 degrees/180 degrees).

scientific article published on 28 July 2007

A perfectly hydrophobic surface (thetaA/thetaR = 180 degrees /180 degrees).

scientific article published in July 2006

An attempt to correct the faulty intuition perpetuated by the Wenzel and Cassie "laws".

scientific article published in July 2009

Contact Angle Hysteresis on Superhydrophobic Surfaces: An Ionic Liquid Probe Fluid Offers Mechanistic Insight

scientific article published on January 27, 2011

Contact angle hysteresis explained

scientific article published in July 2006

How Wenzel and cassie were wrong

scientific article

Ionic liquid marbles

scientific article published on 7 September 2007

Ionic liquids are useful contact angle probe fluids

scientific article published on 13 March 2007

Teflon is hydrophilic. Comments on definitions of hydrophobic, shear versus tensile hydrophobicity, and wettability characterization

scientific article published on 2 August 2008

The "lotus effect" explained: two reasons why two length scales of topography are important

scientific article published in March 2006

Two-dimensional fluidics based on differential lyophobicity and gravity

scientific article published in May 2006

Wetting 101 degrees

scientific article published on December 2009

Wetting and superhydrophobicity

scientific article published on 01 December 2009