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"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 Different Silica Surface: Radical Oxidation of Poly(methylsilsesquioxane) Thin Films and Particles (Tospearl™)

scientific article published on 02 August 2020

A Surprise from 1954: Siloxane Equilibration Is a Simple, Robust, and Obvious Polymer Self-Healing Mechanism ⬇️

scientific article published on January 20, 2012

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

Achieving high aspect ratio wrinkles by modifying material network stress

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Adsorption of poly(vinyl alcohol) from water to a hydrophobic surface: effects of molecular weight, degree of hydrolysis, salt, and temperature

scientific article published in October 2004

Amoebae Assemble Synthetic Spherical Particles To Form Reproducible Constructs

scientific article published on 29 March 2019

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

scientific article published in July 2009

Capillary-bridge-derived particles with negative Gaussian curvature

scientific article

Carbon Nanotubes Readily Disperse in Linear Silicones and Improve the Thermal Stability of Dimethylsilicone Elastomers

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Chemical modification of chromium oxide surfaces using organosilanes.

scientific article published on 12 November 2008

Chemical surface modification of poly(p-xylylene) thin films

scientific article published in October 2004

Condensation on ultrahydrophobic surfaces and its effect on droplet mobility: ultrahydrophobic surfaces are not always water repellant

scientific article published in March 2006

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

Contact angle hysteresis: a different view and a trivial recipe for low hysteresis hydrophobic surfaces ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Covalently Attached Liquids: Instant Omniphobic Surfaces with Unprecedented Repellency.

scientific article published on 16 November 2015

Covalently attached, silver-doped poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogel films on poly(l-lactic acid).

scientific article published in April 2010

Curving and frustrating flatland

scientific article published on October 2004

D4H/D4V Silicone: A Replica Material with Several Advantages for Nanoimprint Lithography and Capillary Force Lithography ⬇️

scientific article published on May 31, 2011

Dip-Coating Crystallization on a Superhydrophobic Surface: A Million Mounted Crystals in a 1 cm2 Array ⬇️

scientific article published on March 29, 2011

Dip-coating deposition on chemically patterned surfaces: a mechanistic analysis and comparison with topographically patterned surfaces.

scientific article

Fabrication of ordered anodic aluminum oxide using a solvent-induced array of block-copolymer micelles

scientific article published in November 2007

How Wenzel and cassie were wrong

scientific article

Hydrophobicity of perfluoroalkyl isocyanate monolayers on oxidized aluminum surfaces.

scientific article published in June 2009

Hydrophobization of inorganic oxide surfaces using dimethylsilanediol.

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

Ionic liquids: nondestructive, nonvolatile imaging fluids for submicrometer-scale monolayer patterns

scientific article

Liquid marbles supported by monodisperse poly(methylsilsesquioxane) particles

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Local switching of chemical patterns through light-triggered unfolding of creased hydrogel surfaces

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

Nylon surface modification: 2. Nylon-supported composite films

scientific article published in February 2006

Poly(trifluoroethylene) adsorption and heterogeneous photochlorination reactions

scientific article published on 8 May 2008

Polymerization of monomer-based ferrofluids

scientific article published in May 2010

Rapid and Clean Covalent Attachment of Methylsiloxane Polymers and Oligomers to Silica Using B(C6F5)3 Catalysis

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Rediscovering Silicones: The Anomalous Water Permeability of "Hydrophobic" PDMS Suggests Nanostructure and Applications in Water Purification and Anti-Icing

scientific article published on 28 December 2020

Rediscovering Silicones: “Unreactive” Silicones React with Inorganic Surfaces ⬇️

scientific article published on August 22, 2011

Rediscovering silicones: molecularly smooth, low surface energy, unfilled, UV/vis-transparent, extremely cross-linked, thermally stable, hard, elastic PDMS.

scientific article

Self-Assembly Is Not the Only Reaction Possible between Alkyltrichlorosilanes and Surfaces:  Monomolecular and Oligomeric Covalently Attached Layers of Dichloro- and Trichloroalkylsilanes on Silicon

scientific article (publication date: September 2000)

Sessile Liquid Features as Molds for Silicone Elastomers

scientific article published on 09 April 2020

Shear distortion and failure of capillary bridges. Wetting information beyond contact angle analysis

scientific article published on 04 June 2013

Simple and improved approaches to long-lasting, hydrophilic silicones derived from commercially available precursors

scientific article published on 15 December 2014

Simultaneous tailoring of surface topography and chemical structure for controlled wettability

scientific article published in September 2004

Sulfone-Containing Methacrylate Homopolymers: Wetting and Thermal Properties

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Superhydrophobic, Low-Hysteresis Patterning Chemistry for Water-Drop Manipulation

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

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

Ultrahydrophobic and Ultralyophobic Surfaces: Some Comments and Examples

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Ultralyophobic oxidized aluminum surfaces exhibiting negligible contact angle hysteresis

scientific article published in February 2010

Using the Fact that Wetting Is Contact Line Dependent ⬇️

scientific article published on 07 March 2011

Vapor-phase formation of alkyl isocyanate-derived self-assembled monolayers on titanium dioxide

scientific article

Versatile multilayer thin film preparation using hydrophobic interactions, crystallization, and chemical modification of poly(vinyl alcohol).

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

Wetting 101 degrees

scientific article published on December 2009

Wetting and superhydrophobicity

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

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