Multi-scale structured, superhydrophobic and wide-angle, antireflective coating in the near-infrared region

• DOI: 10.1039/c2cc30456b
• Publication Date: 2012-03-27T15:05:59Z
• Authors: Kelly C. Camargo; Alexandre F. Michels; Fabiano S. Rodemb...; Flavio Horowitz
• Keywords: Anti-reflective coating; Superhydrophobic coating

Superhydrophobic self-cleaning surfaces were produced with simultaneous wide-angle optical transmittance in the near-infrared region and antireflection properties from combination of multi-scale surface topology based on silica nanoparticles, index grading interference.