Surface Innovations

The material innovations on surfaces, combined with understanding and manipulation of physics and chemistry of functional surfaces and coatings, have exploded in the past decade at an incredibly rapid pace.Superhydrophobicity, superhydrophlicity, self-cleaning, self-healing, anti-fouling, anti-bacterial, etc., have become important fundamental topics of surface science research community driven by curiosity of physics, chemistry, and biology of interaction phenomenon at surfaces and their enormous potential in practical applications. Materials having controlled-functionality surfaces and coatings are important to the manufacturing of new products for environmental control, liquid manipulation, nanotechnological advances, biomedical engineering, pharmacy, biotechnology, and many others, and are part of the most promising technological innovations of the twenty-first century.

表面上的材料创新，加上对功能表面和涂层的物理和化学的理解和操作，在过去的十年里以惊人的速度爆炸了。超疏水性、超亲水性、自清洁性、自愈性、防污性、抗菌性等已成为表面科学研究界的重要基础课题，受到表面相互作用现象的物理、化学、生物学等方面的关注，在实际应用中具有巨大的潜力。具有受控功能表面和涂层的材料对于制造用于环境控制、液体操作、纳米技术进步、生物医学工程、制药、生物技术等的新产品很重要，并且是二十一世纪最有前途的技术创新的一部分。