On water repellency
Top Cited Papers
- 22 April 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Soft Matter
- Vol. 1 (1), 55-61
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b501657f
Abstract
Water-repellency is a property of some materials, either natural or synthetic, which makes water hardly stick to them: drops roll very easily off these solids, and bounce back upon impacting them. Here we discuss recent advances in this field, which has been particularly lively in recent years. We first examine the physical causes for this effect. Then we discuss the loss of adherence of the drops in such a state, and stress their remarkable dynamic behaviour. We finally suggest several remaining challenges in the field.Keywords
This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
- Wetting on Hydrophobic Rough Surfaces: To Be Heterogeneous or Not To Be?Langmuir, 2003
- Superhydrophobic statesNature Materials, 2003
- On the Modeling of Hydrophobic Contact Angles on Rough SurfacesLangmuir, 2003
- Wetting of textured surfacesColloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2002
- Roughness-induced non-wettingEurophysics Letters, 2000
- Ultrahydrophobic Surfaces. Effects of Topography Length Scales on WettabilityLangmuir, 2000
- Characterization and Distribution of Water-repellent, Self-cleaning Plant SurfacesAnnals of Botany, 1997
- Super-Water-Repellent Fractal SurfacesLangmuir, 1996
- Wettability of porous surfacesTransactions of the Faraday Society, 1944
- RESISTANCE OF SOLID SURFACES TO WETTING BY WATERIndustrial & Engineering Chemistry, 1936