Wetting of Polymer Surfaces
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2020) | Viewed by 378
Special Issue Editor
Interests: micro- and nanofabrication; fabrication of polymer micro- and nanostructures; anti-reflecting surfaces; plasmonic metasurfaces; microfluidics; surface wetting properties
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Researches within surface engineering, targeting, for example, medical device and biotech applications, or even photovoltaic systems, have largely moved from silica-based to polymer-based materials platforms. This trend is partly driven by the need to lower entry barriers for commercialization and to ease the design-for-manufacturability of bio-MEMS, microfluidics, medical devices, lab-on-chip systems, and organic photovoltaics. However, one of the limitations of shifting to a polymer platform is the relatively small span in surface energy of polymeric materials, and thus a limited span in the wetting properties of polymeric surfaces from slightly hydrophilic to slightly hydrophobic. Hence, in order to enable efficient engineering solutions for applications, more research on the wetting properties of polymer surfaces is required. With this Special Issue, we welcome papers that address the above-mentioned challenges. We will consider the full breadth of papers reporting basic research on the wetting properties for polymer surfaces to engineering approaches and application-focused papers, employing a polymer materials platform.
In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic surfaces;
- Superoleophobic surfaces;
- Surface tension;
- Contact angle/contact angle hysteresis;
- Superamphiphobic surfaces;
- Superwetting surfaces;
- Anti-fog surfaces;
- Anti-ice surfaces;
- Shape-memory effects.
Prof. Dr. Rafael J. Taboryski
Guest Editor
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