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Cover Picture: Water Repellency in Hydrophobic Nanocapsules—Molecular View on Dewetting (Chem. Eur. J. 22/2014)
Author(s) -
Müller Achim,
Garai Somenath,
Schäffer Christian,
Merca Alice,
Bögge Hartmut,
AlKarawi Ahmed Jasim M.,
Prasad Thazhe Kootteri
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201490087
Subject(s) - dewetting , wetting , lotus effect , nanocapsules , water repellent , lotus , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , hydrophobic effect , water chemistry , chemistry , polymer science , materials science , organic chemistry , composite material , botany , engineering , biology , environmental chemistry , nanoparticle , raw material
Water repellency plays an amazing/important role in biology and industry. This refers, for example, either to the self‐cleaning Lotus leaves (the so‐called Lotus effect, shown schematically) and the non‐wetting wings and legs of special insects like the cranefly, or to the production of self‐cleaning surfaces of practical use. In the Full Paper on page 6659 ff. A. Müller et al. refer to a remarkable example of water repellency in a hydrophobic capsule (left), while a completely different result—an encapsulated {H 2 O} 100 cluster—is obtained in the corresponding hydrophilic one (right).