Xiangming Yang

Nov 28, 2024 | sciencedirect.com | Joseph Cohen |Ram Kouda |Xiangming Yang |Hui Chen

Magnesium-aluminum-manganese-copper alloys with excellent specific strength and good formability are well suited for structural components of automotive battery boxes, but their poor hydrophobicity and resistance to icing limit their practical application. Superhydrophobic coatings have a very high water contact angle (more than 150°) and a very low roll angle (less than 10°), which is promising for water repellency [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7].

Nov 12, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Yan Liu |Yuting Zhong |Hui Chen |Xiangming Yang

1 Introduction Superhydrophobic surfaces, engineered by integrating micro–nano hierarchical structures with low surface energy materials, have found extensive applications in self-cleaning,[1] antifouling,[2-4] oil–water separation,[5] and anti/de-icing technologies.[6-8] Despite their broad utility, most superhydrophobic surfaces produced by various fabrication techniques lack sufficient mechanical robustness, making their microstructures and low surface energy layers vulnerable to...