Garage floors endure a lot: Cars that weigh 4,000 pounds on average, heavy tools that get dropped, and chemicals and oils that get spilled. Since many garage floors are just bare concrete, those ...

Developing versatile, scalable, and durable coatings that resist the accretion of matters (liquid, vapor, and solid phases) in various operating environments is important to industrial applications, ...

Dual-repellent coatings have been widely utilized as multifunctional surface coatings for both flexible substrates (e.g., textiles and leather) and rigid substrates (including marine structures, ...

Ice-repellent coatings have been around for some time, but until now they have been very sensitive and detach quite quickly from the surfaces they are meant to protect. A research team led by Anna ...