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Hydrophobicity

Hydrophobicity is the surface property of a solid material in the context of solid-liquid interfaces that characterizes its tendency to repel water due to low surface energy and minimal polar interactions, thereby reducing wetting by aqueous liquids.

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Super‐Hydrophobic Surfaces: From Natural to Artificial

Libang Feng, Shuhui Li, Yuanxin Li et al. · Advanced Materials · 2002 · 4.4K citations

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Designing Superoleophobic Surfaces

Anish Tuteja, Wonjae Choi, Minglin Ma et al. · Science · 2007 · 3K citations

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The interaction of water with solid surfaces: Fundamental aspects

P. A. Thiel, Theodore E. Madey · Surface Science Reports · 1987 · 2.4K citations

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Adherence of bacteria to hydrocarbons: A simple method for measuring cell-surface hydrophobicity

M Rosenberg, David L. Gutnick, Eugene Rosenberg · FEMS Microbiology Letters · 1980 · 2.3K citations

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Room temperature ionic liquids as novel media for ‘clean’ liquid–liquid extraction

Jonathan G. Huddleston, Heather D. Willauer, Richard P. Swatloski et al. · Chemical Communications · 1998 · 2.1K citations

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Authors

35.8K

  1. LJ
    Lei Jiang

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    40 publications · 8.4K citations

    31

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  2. HC
    Henny C. van der Mei

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    30 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. HJ
    Henk J. Busscher

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    24 publications · 1.9K citations

    22

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  4. PM
    Per M. Claesson

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

    24 publications · 2.8K citations

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  5. JN
    Jacob N. Israelachvili

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    20 publications · 5.7K citations

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Institutions

4.9K

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    75 h-index

    1.2K publications

    137K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    65 h-index

    722 publications

    48.3K citations

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    43 h-index

    272 publications

    16.2K citations

  4. South China University of Technology

    Guangzhou, China

    42 h-index

    358 publications

    19K citations

  5. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    42 h-index

    192 publications

    18.5K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    41 h-index

    217 publications

    56.1K citations

  7. Tsinghua University

    Beijing, China

    41 h-index

    361 publications

    20.5K citations

  8. Zhejiang University

    Hangzhou, China

    38 h-index

    280 publications

    15.2K citations

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  1. Langmuir

    579 publications · 48.4K citations

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  2. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

    186 publications · 12.1K citations

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  3. Journal of the American Chemical Society

    JACS · 111 publications · 15.2K citations

    65

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 82 publications · 15.2K citations

    60

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  5. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    120 publications · 9.6K citations

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