By Cnr Ifn
Throughout the evolution, nature has been able to adapt to the environment, creating materials with unique properties, typically related to their surface morphology. Ultrafast laser-based technology is particularly suitable to generate very reproducible and precise micro- and nanostructures on a wide range of materials. Taking inspiration from nature, our groups exploits laser surface texturing to structure materials surfaces on the micro- and nanometer scale to confer them novel and augmented properties and new functionalities, such as anti-wear, friction and drag reduction, controlled wettability (superhydrophilicity/superhydrophobicity) for anti-fogging, water capture and anti-icing, smart adhesiveness, tailored optical properties, increased emissivity.
