Surface Wetting & Adhesion

  • Cutting a micropost surface increases its adhesion strength

    Hassan, A.; Kim, Y.; Ryu, S.; Hatton, B.; Filleter, T. Divisions in a Fibrillar Adhesive Increase the Adhesive Strength. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, 13 (49), 59478-59486.

  • Slippery, anti-ice surfaces

    Urata, C.; Nagashima, H.; Hatton, B.D.; Hozumi, A. Transparent Organogel Films Showing Extremely Efficient and Durable Anti-Icing Performance. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, 13 (24), 28925.

  • Writing on the tips of nanoposts

    Hatton, B. D.; Aizenberg, J. Writing on Superhydrophobic Nanopost Arrays: Topographic Design for Bottom-up Assembly. Nano Letters 2012, 12 (9), 4551.

  • Wetting patterns identify liquids

    Burgess, I. B.; Mishchenko, L.; Hatton, B. D.; Kolle, M.; Lončar, M.; Aizenberg, J. Encoding complex wettability patterns in chemically functionalized 3D photonic crystals. J. American Chemical Society 2011, 133 (32), 12430.

  • SLIPS: a new kind of surface

    Wong, T. S.; Kang, S. H.; Tang, S. K. Y.; Smythe, E. J.; Hatton, B. D.; Grinthal, A.; Aizenberg, J. Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces with pressure-stable omniphobicity. Nature 2011, 477 (7365), 443.

  • Superhydrophobic, anti-ice surface

    Mishchenko, L.; Hatton, B. D.; Bahadur, V.; Taylor, J. A.; Krupenkin, T.; Aizenberg, J. Design of ice-free nanostructured surfaces based on repulsion of impacting water droplets. ACS Nano 2010, 4 (12), 7699.

  • Patterned water droplets and ice

    L. Mishchenko, J. Aizenberg, B.D. Hatton, “Spatial Control of Condensation and Freezing on Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Hydrophilic Patches”, Advanced Functional Materials 2013, 23, 4577-4584.