Bioinspired Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Advances and Applications with Metallic and Inorganic Materials

by Thierry Darmanin and Frédéric Guittard

“This book is not only bio-inspired but also reader-inspiring. It starts with an interesting introduction that contains stimulating examples. This is followed by a clear, short summary of the theoretical principles. The main part of the book describes in detail a wealth of fabrication processes, based on hundreds of references. The book is an invaluable tool for every researcher or engineer who is about to start or is already working in the field of superhydrophobic surfaces. It will serve as an excellent guide to the maze of superhydrophobicity.”
Prof. Avi Marmur, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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Published: November -0001

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Materials with superhydrophobic or related properties are one of the most studied subjects from a theoretical point of view and also for the large range of their possible applications as, for example, anticorrosion agents, antibacterials, optical devices, and sensors. The study of natural species with special wettability has shown us the importance of surface structures and the surface energy of the resulting surface properties. Various strategies can be used to reproduce superhydrophobic phenomena in the laboratory. General reviews on superhydrophobic properties already exist but do not focus on metallic and inorganic materials. This book focuses especially on the strategies implemented for reaching superhydrophobic or related properties using metallic and inorganic materials. Indeed, these materials present unique properties, for example, thermal and mechanical resistance, chemical and ageing resistance, and optical (transparency, antireflection, photoluminescence) and electrical properties (conducting, semiconducting, insulating). The book will be useful for graduate students of materials chemistry and physics and for researchers in surface science, nanostructures, and bioinspired or biomimetic materials.

About the Authors

Frédéric Guittard is a full professor at Université Côte d’Azur (NICE Lab, IMREDD), Nice, France, with more than 25 years of experience in organic and fluorine chemistry, surfaces and interfaces, bioinspired and advanced materials, and surface wettability. His present research interests include bioinspired and bio-based chemistry and materials. Prof. Guittard has coauthored more than 200 journal papers and attended more than 60 international conferences as an invited speaker.

Thierry Darmanin is an associate professor at Université Côte d’Azur (NICE Lab, IMREDD), under the supervision of Prof. Guittard. His research interests focus on superhydrophobic and superoleophobic surfaces, electrochemical processes of deposition, and bioinspired and biomimetic materials and systems. Dr. Darmanin has coauthored more than 120 journal papers.

“This book is not only bio-inspired but also reader-inspiring. It starts with an interesting introduction that contains stimulating examples. This is followed by a clear, short summary of the theoretical principles. The main part of the book describes in detail a wealth of fabrication processes, based on hundreds of references. The book is an invaluable tool for every researcher or engineer who is about to start or is already working in the field of superhydrophobic surfaces. It will serve as an excellent guide to the maze of superhydrophobicity.”
~Prof. Avi Marmur, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

“Bioinspired artificial surfaces with controllable wettability are a very important theme in both nanoscience and interfacial materials. Materials science and technology are targeting alternative but complementary manufacturing approaches to developing a large variability of substrates and functionalities for the design of innovative devices with special surface properties. This book presents an extensive overview of advanced technological strategies suitable for designing and realizing smart micro-/nanostructured substrates with special wettability for versatile applications in microfluidics-related fields. It is a good resource for research scientists, students, R&D companies, and surface engineers to learn about the recent efforts made by the scientific communities in this field.”
~Prof. Yuekun Lai, Soochow University, China

“This is an excellent book for anyone interested in metallic and inorganic materials with superhydrophobicity. It gives the reader a grasp of how superhydrophobicity works and contains numerous practical examples of superhydrophobic metallic and inorganic materials. Profs. Frédéric Guittard and Thierry Darmanin bring together their deep insight into a host of superhydrophobic applications, such as anticorrosion agents, antibacterials, optical devices, and sensors, and explain the subject in a simple language. Superhydrophobicity is a centuries-old concept and a familiar phenomenon for everyone. This intriguing book on such a fascinating topic will interest everyone from a high school student to the most advanced researcher in the field.”
~Prof. Lei Jiang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China