Nanotextured silica surfaces with robust superhydrophobicity and omnidirectional broadband supertransmissivity

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3789-3799

  Park, Kyoo Chul ^a   Choi, Hyungryul J ^a   Chang, Chih Hao ^a,b   Cohen, Robert E ^a   McKinley, Gareth H ^a   Barbastathis, George ^a,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antifogging; Antireflective; Enhanced transmission; High aspect ratio nanostructure; Self cleaning; Wetting

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOGGING; ANTIREFLECTIVE; ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; HIGH ASPECT RATIO NANO-STRUCTURES; SELF-CLEANING;

HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; WETTING;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 84864717148     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301112t     Document Type: Article

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