Design and characterization of nanostructured ultrahydrophobic coatings.
Films with specific nanoroughness were designed by "virtual coating" to yield ultrahydrophobicity while the light scatter remained below an application-relevant threshold. Examples of coating experiments demonstrate the realization of predicted properties.
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 7, 07745 Jena, Germany. flemming@iof.fraunhofer.de
Marcel
M
Flemming
Angela
A
Duparré