Surface Innovations

期刊简介：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.

【译文】在过去十年中，表面材料创新与对功能性表面和涂层物理化学的理解及操控以惊人的速度快速发展。超疏水性、超亲水性、自清洁、自修复、防污、抗菌等已成为表面科学领域的重要基础研究课题，这些课题由对表面相互作用现象的物理、化学和生物学的好奇心驱动，并在实际应用中具有巨大的潜力。具有可控功能表面和涂层的材料对于环境控制、液体操控、纳米技术进步、生物医学工程、制药、生物技术等领域的新产品制造至关重要，也是21世纪最有希望的技术创新之一。