All Stories

  1. Assembl y of Poly-3-Hexylthiophene Nano-Crystallites into Low Dimensional Structures Using Indandione Derivatives

    Article • Nanomaterials, February 2013, MDPI AG

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  2. Wet Adhesion and Adhesive Locomotion of Snails on Anti-Adhesive Non-Wetting Surfaces

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2012, PLOS

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  3. The Self Assembly of Superhydrophobic Copper Thiolate Films on Copper in Thiol Solutions

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, March 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  4. Underwater spiders

    Article • The New Scientist, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  5. The superhydrophobicity of polymer surfaces: Recent developments

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, June 2011, Wiley

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  6. Capillary origami: superhydrophobic ribbon surfaces and liquid marbles

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, March 2011, Beilstein Institut

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  7. An introduction to superhydrophobicity

    Article • Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, December 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  8. A preliminary study of the surface properties of earthworms and their relations to non-stain behaviour

    Article • Journal of Bionic Engineering, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  9. Immersed superhydrophobic surfaces: Gas exchange, slip and drag reduction properties

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  10. Learning from Superhydrophobic Plants: The Use of Hydrophilic Areas on Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Droplet Control † † Part of the “Langmuir 25th Year: Wetting and superhydrophobicity” special issue.

    Article • Langmuir, December 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  11. Dynamic wetting and spreading and the role of topography

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, October 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  12. Superhydrophobic Copper Tubes with Possible Flow Enhancement and Drag Reduction

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, June 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  13. Terminal velocity and drag reduction measurements on superhydrophobic spheres

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, February 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  14. Sensor response of superhydrophobic quartz crystal resonators

    Article • May 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  15. Surface Chemistry of Solid and Liquid Interfaces. By H. Y. Erbil.

    Article • ChemPhysChem, March 2008, Wiley

    Professor Husnu Yildirim Erbil, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  16. Progess in superhydrophobic surface development

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Roach, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  17. Nano-scale superhydrophobicity: suppression of protein adsorption and promotion of flow-induced detachment

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Roach, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  18. Decoupling of the Liquid Response of a Superhydrophobic Quartz Crystal Microbalance

    Article • Langmuir, September 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Glen McHale, Dr Paul Roach, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  19. Superhydrophobic to superhydrophilic transitions of sol–gel films for temperature, alcohol or surfactant measurement

    Article • Materials Chemistry and Physics, May 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Glen McHale, Dr Paul Roach, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  20. Highly aluminium doped barium and strontium ferrite nanoparticles prepared by citrate auto-combustion synthesis

    Article • Materials Research Bulletin, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  21. Self-organization of hydrophobic soil and granular surfaces

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, January 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  22. Electrowetting of Nonwetting Liquids and Liquid Marbles

    Article • Langmuir, January 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  23. Implications of ideas on super-hydrophobicity for water repellent soil

    Article • Hydrological Processes, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  24. Electrowetting of liquid marbles

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, December 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  25. A lichen protected by a super-hydrophobic and breathable structure

    Article • Journal of Plant Physiology, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  26. Quantification of Surface-Bound Proteins by Fluorometric Assay: Comparison with Quartz Crystal Microbalance and Amido Black Assay

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, October 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Roach, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  27. Plastron properties of a superhydrophobic surface

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, September 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  28. Critical conditions for the wetting of soils

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, August 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  29. Electrowetting on superhydrophobic SU-8 patterned surfaces

    Article • Sensors and Actuators A Physical, August 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  30. Comments on “Chitosan-Catalyzed Aggregation during the Biomimetic Synthesis of Silica Nanoparticles”

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, March 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Siddharth Patwardhan, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  31. Analysis of Droplet Evaporation on a Superhydrophobic Surface

    Article • Langmuir, November 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Husnu Yildirim Erbil, Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  32. The effect of SU-8 patterned surfaces on the response of the quartz crystal microbalance

    Article • Sensors and Actuators A Physical, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  33. Water-repellent soil and its relationship to granularity, surface roughness and hydrophobicity: a materials science view

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, August 2005, Wiley

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  34. Synthesis of SrCoxTixFe(12−2x)O19 through sol–gel auto-ignition and its characterisation

    Article • Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, April 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  35. Wetting and Wetting Transitions on Copper-Based Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces

    Article • Langmuir, February 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  36. Porous materials show superhydrophobic to superhydrophilic switching

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2005, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Glen McHale, Dr Paul Roach, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  37. Dual-Scale Roughness Produces Unusually Water-Repellent Surfaces

    Article • Advanced Materials, November 2004, Wiley

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  38. Contact-Angle Hysteresis on Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces

    Article • Langmuir, November 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  39. Topography Driven Spreading

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  40. The use of high aspect ratio photoresist (SU-8) for super-hydrophobic pattern prototyping

    Article • Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, July 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Glen McHale, Dr Paul Roach, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  41. Super-hydrophobic and super-wetting surfaces: Analytical potential?

    Article • The Analyst, January 2004, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  42. Tailoring of the morphology and chemical composition of thin organosilane microwave plasma polymer layers on metal substrates

    Article • Thin Solid Films, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  43. Intrinsically Superhydrophobic Organosilica Sol−Gel Foams

    Article • Langmuir, July 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Glen McHale, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  44. In situ infrared spectroscopic studies of ultrathin inorganic film growth on zinc in non-polymerizing cold plasmas

    Article • Surface and Interface Analysis, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  45. Chemical structure and morphology of thin, organo-silicon plasma-polymer films as a function of process parameters

    Article • Surface and Coatings Technology, July 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  46. Deposition of clays onto a rotating, electrochemical, quartz crystal microbalance

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, September 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  47. Reproducible Preparation of Silver Sols with Small Particle Size Using Borohydride Reduction: For Use as Nuclei for Preparation of Larger Particles

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, March 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Neil Shirtcliffe

  48. Natural and Artificial Hybrid Biomaterials

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Siddharth Patwardhan, Professor Neil Shirtcliffe