Xu Deng

TL;DR: An easily fabricated, transparent, and oil-rebounding superamphiphobic coating is designed, based on low-energy surfaces and roughness on the nano- and micrometer scales.

TL;DR: It is suggested that this transparent, mechanically robust, self-cleaning glass could help to negate the dust-contamination issue that leads to a loss of efficiency in solar cells and could also guide the development of other materials that need to retain effective self- Cleaning, anti-fouling or heat-transfer abilities in harsh operating environments.

TL;DR: It is shown that spreading of an impinged water droplet on the device bridges the originally disconnected components into a closed-loop electrical system, transforming the conventional interfacial effect into a bulk effect, and so enhancing the instantaneous power density by several orders of magnitude over equivalent devices that are limited by interfacial effects.

TL;DR: Porous silica capsules are used as key components to build lotus leaf-like superhydrophobic surfaces that are self-cleaning and anticorrosive, mechanically and thermally stable and used as transparent coatings for organic solar cells.

TL;DR: This visualization of the impalement dynamics will facilitate the development and characterization of superhydrophobic surfaces and help to understand the underlying processes.