Improvement of Surface Wettability Using Pulse Laser Technology
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Plasma Coatings, Surfaces & Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 540
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pulsed laser ablation; chemical coatings; 3D printings; superhydrophobic; superhydrophilic; superoleophobic; water harvesting; anti-corrosion; anti-icing; droplet manipulation; oil-water separation
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your research works to our Special Issue—"Improvement of surface wettability using pulse laser technology". Over the years, developments in surface and interface engineering with the purpose of modifying and improving surface wettability (superhydrophilicity, hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity, superhydrophobicity, oleophilicity, oleophobicity, superomniphobicity, etc.) using pulse laser technologies (femtosecond pulse, picosecond pulse, and nanosecond pulse) have attracted significant interest from researchers and scientists globally. The creation of micro-, nano-, or hierarchical structures combined with the surface energy of materials can change surface wettability. This Special Issue aims to present the latest experimental and computational developments in improving surface wettability using pulse laser technology through a combination of original research papers and review articles from leading scientists around the world.
In particular, topics of interest are the following:
- Direct/one-step laser modification on material surfaces (metals, metal alloys, metal oxides, ceramics, polymers, composites, 2D materials, etc.);
- Combination of pulse laser technology and chemical coating processes (dip coating, CVD, spray coating, etc.);
- Laser-induced periodic surface structures for wettability change;
- Mechanisms for wettability transition (hydrophilic to hydrophobic, oleophilic to oleophobic, etc.);
- Application of treated surfaces (self-cleaning, water–oil separation, anti-icing, drag reduction, water collection, microfluidics, etc.)
Dr. Chi-Vinh Ngo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- superhydrophilicity
- superhydrophobicity
- oleophilicity
- oleophobicity
- superomniphobicity
- femtosecond laser ablation
- picosecond laser ablation
- nanosecond laser ablation
- LIPSS
- wettability transition
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