Superhydrophobic Polymer Coatings: Fundamentals, Design, Fabrication, and Applications

Superhydrophobic Polymer Coatings: Fundamentals, Design, Fabrication, and Applications offers a comprehensive overview of the preparation and applications of polymer coatings with superhydrophobicity, guiding the reader through advanced techniques and scientific principles. Sections present detailed information on the fundamental theories and methods behind the preparation of superhydrophobic polymer coatings and demonstrate the current and potential applications of these materials, covering a range of novel and marketable uses across industry, including coatings with properties such as foul resistance and self-cleaning, anti-icing and ice-release, corrosion inhibition, antibacterial, anti-reflection, slip and drag reduction, oil-water separation, and advanced medical applications.

This book is a highly valuable resource for academic researchers, scientists and advanced students working on polymer coatings or polymer surface modifications, as well as professionals across polymer science, polymer chemistry, plastics engineering, and materials science. The detailed information in this book will also be of great interest to scientists, R&D professionals, product designers and engineers who are looking to develop products with superhydrophobic coatings.

Presents in-depth information on the advanced methods required in the preparation of superhydrophobic polymer coatingsCovers the latest advances in the design of polymer coatings with superhydrophobic properties, including nanofabricationExplains cutting-edge industrial and medical applications, including self-cleaning coatings, corrosion inhibition, anti-icing and ice-release, and oil-water separation

Section I: Fundamental, Design and Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Polymer Coatings 1. Fundamentals of superhydrophobic surfaces 2. Superhydrophobic polymer coating: A design perspective 3. Methods and fabrication techniques of superhydrophobic surfaces 4. Nanomaterials for design and fabrication of superhydrophobic polymer coating 5. Characterization of superhydrophobic polymer coating 6. The stability of the superhydrophobic surfaces 7. Biological adhesion behavior of superhydrophobic polymer coating

Section II: Potential Applications of Superhydrophobic Polymers Coatings 8. Superhydrophobic foul resistant and self-cleaning polymer coating 9. Superhydrophobic antiicing and ice-release polymer coatings 10. Superhydrophobic corrosion inhibition polymer coatings 11. Superhydrophobic antibacterial polymer coatings 12. Superhydrophobic antireflective polymer coatings with improved solar cell efficiency 13. Interfacial slip-and-drag reduction by superhydrophobic polymer coating 14. Superhydrophobic coatings for medical applications 15. Superhydrophobic surfaces for oil-water separation