Superhydrophobicity of lotus leaves versus birds wings: Different physical mechanisms leading to similar phenomena

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 14992-14997

  Bormashenko, Edward ^a   Gendelman, Oleg ^b   Whyman, Gene ^a  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASSIE STATE; COMPLETE WETTING; CRITICAL PRESSURES; LOTUS LEAVES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; WATER REPELLENCY;

RAIN; WETTING;

HYDROPHOBICITY;

EID: 84867753815     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la303340x     Document Type: Article

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