Durable, superhydrophobic, antireflection, and low haze glass surfaces using scalable metal dewetting nanostructuring

Nano Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 429-440

  Infante, Daniel ^a   Koch, Karl W ^c   Mazumder, Prantik ^c   Tian, Lili ^c   Carrilero, Albert ^a   Tulli, Domenico ^a   Baker, David ^c   Pruneri, Valerio ^a,b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c Science and Technology Division   (United States)

Author keywords

antireflective; dewetting; nanostructures; self assembly; superhydrophobic philic surfaces; surface modification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879146203     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0320-z     Document Type: Article

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