title: Wetting and superhydrophobicity.
abstract: This article is written to serve as an introduction to the topic of "Wetting and Superhydrophobicity" and to give some perspective for the papers that follow. This area of research that impacts and overlaps many fields of science and technology has been identifiable for centuries, but has gained considerable traction in the past decade.
authors.affiliation: Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
authors.forename: Lichao
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: McCarthy
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang