Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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A review on the mechanical and thermodynamic robustness of superhydrophobic surfaces
Published 2017-05-30Advancements in the fabrication and study of superhydrophobic surfaces have been significant over the past 10 years, and some 20 years after the discovery of the lotus effect, the study of special wettability surfaces can ...Open AccessArticle -
Functional patterned coatings by thin polymer film dewetting
Published 2017-07-04An approach for the fabrication of functional polymer surface coatings is introduced, where micro-scale structure and surface functionality are obtained by means of self-assembly mechanisms. We illustrate two main applications ...Open AccessArticle -
Control of nanoparticle formation using the constrained dewetting of polymer brushes
Published 2015-01-14We have used coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the use of pinned micelles formed by the constrained dewetting of polymer brushes to act as a template for nanoparticle formation. The evaporation ...Open AccessArticle -
High Glass Transition Temperature Fluoropolymers for Hydrophobic Surface Coatings via RAFT Copolymerization
Published 2016-02-24The preparation of polymer thin films or surface coatings that display a static water contact angle .958 often requires hierarchical roughness features or surface functionalization steps. In addition, inherently hydrophobic ...Open AccessArticle -
The Good the Bad and the Slippery: A Tale of Three Solvents in Polymer Film Dewetting
Published 2016-09-01We investigated the dynamics and morphology of dewetting of bilayers of thin polymer films, made of a top poly(4-vinylpyridine) (P4VP) film on a polystyrene film on silicon substrates, upon exposure to vapors of binary and ...Open AccessArticle