Kripa K. Varanasi

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the fundamental physico-chemical hydrodynamics that arise when droplets, immiscible with the lubricant, are placed on and allowed to move along these surfaces.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the contact time below this theoretical limit by using superhydrophobic surfaces with a morphology that redistributes the liquid mass and thereby alters the drop hydrodynamics.

TL;DR: It is argued that any further appreciable reduction in ice adhesion strength will require textured surfaces, as no known materials exhibit receding water contact angles on smooth/flat surfaces that are significantly above those reported here (i.e., the values of [1 + cos θ(rec)] reported here have essentially reached a minimum for known materials).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an environmental scanning electron microscope to study frost formation and its impact on icephobic properties of super-hydrophobic surfaces, and showed that frost nucleation occurs indiscriminately on super hydrophobic textures without any particular spatial preference.

TL;DR: This work shows that a class of ceramics comprising the entire lanthanide oxide series, ranging from ceria to lutecia, is intrinsically hydrophobic, and attributes their hydrophobicity to their unique electronic structure, which inhibits hydrogen bonding with interfacial water molecules.