...Jiaxin Long, MSc; Xuefeng Xie, MSc; Yuxin Cai, MSc; Shuwei Zhong, PhD; Sangen Luo, PhD; Weilong Zhang, MSc; Munan Yang, PhD In this paper, the pulse-reverse current electroplating technique was utilized to deposit nickel–copper (Ni-Cu) alloy coatings on the surface of neodymium magnets (NdFeB...

...Shaofeng Xu, PhD; Juhan Lin, BSc; Yifan Yu, BSc; Hubiao Wang, PhD; Junjie Lu, PhD Low flow drag is of great importance to a variety of engineering applications, and an effective way to achieve low drag is to use bioinspired microstructured surfaces. This work aims to reduce the skin-friction drag...

... that at a low speed, this warming is able to reduce significantly the friction coefficient. The conditions of the experiments cover only reduced speed and temperature intervals. A possible interpretation of this phenomenon is based on the modification of the quasi-liquid layer existing on the surface of snow...

... at 0.75 (±0.1) V and reduced at −0.2 (±0.1) V. (b) Background current. The oxidation peaks at 0.4 and 1.1 V and the reduction peak at 0.9 V are likely to be due to surface groups formed during oxidation of carbon. 39 (c) The peak current is directly proportional to the scan rate with an r...

... by the deformation of the diamagnetic liquid surface by a magnetic field, called the ‘Moses effect’. The influence of the surface tension on the shape of the well pushed out by the steady magnetic field (B ≅ 0·35T) acting on the surface of the liquid was studied both experimentally...

... for the copper (nanoparticle)/copper (substrate) system were qualitatively compared to some available experimental data on the spreading of copper microparticles (5–20 μm) on the surface of polycrystalline copper. Before simulating the nanoparticle spreading, the size dependence of the melting temperature...

... surfaces An increasing demand for repair of damaged and malfunctioning organs and novel diagnostic and therapeutic implant devices drive the research advances in the area of development of novel biomaterials with enhanced biocompatibility characteristics. A poor understanding of the complex...

...Mohamed Mehdi Chehimi, HDR; Benjamin Carbonnier, PhD In the second review paper, Guerrouache et al. summarise strategies for the design of monoliths bearing hydrophilic surfaces for in vitro biomedical sample analysis. ² The emphasis is on the control of surface...

...Jaroslaw Drelich; Abraham Marmur ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2015 surfaces The authors regret incorrect labels in Figure 4d of their paper published in Surface Innovations  2 (4): 211–227. ...

...Rihab Ben Slama, MPhil; Bechir Mrabet, HDR; Amina Bakhrouf, DSc; Zakaria Salmi, PhD; Idriss Bakas, PhD; Mohamed M. Chehimi, HDR Gold (Au)- and indium-tin-oxide (ITO)-coated glass plates grafted with polymer/silver nanoparticle (Ag NP) hybrid coatings were prepared and served as biocidal surfaces...

...Jaroslaw Drelich ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2015 surfaces In the third contribution to this issue, Prof. J.D. Miller (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) and his collaborators analyze water structure at the surface of hydrophilic and hydrophobic silica using both sum...

...Lucyna Holysz surfaces The meeting entitled Layers at Interfaces commemorates the 70th birthday of Prof. Emil Chibowski. It was held on May 17 and 18 at the Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. Prof. Chibowski has devoted nearly 50 years of his life...

... was also a supervisor of Doctor Honoris Causa of Dr. Kash Mittal (the United States of America). One of his PhD students has already received the title of professor of chemistry. ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 surfaces Prof. dr hab. Emil Chibowski Professor Emil...

...-healing coating’ IWRI, UniSA, 2011. ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 surfaces The authors regret that the following text was omitted from the acknowledgements section of this paper when it was published in Surface Innovations  1(2) : 112–137. ...

...Jaroslaw Drelich, PhD Daoud Walid D. (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd. , Chichester, UK , 2013 , ISBN: 978-1-119-99177-9 , 352 pp. 27 11 2013 27 11 2013 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 surfaces Self-cleaning coatings and products have garnered...

...Kock-Yee Law ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 surfaces Studies of micro/nanostructured surfaces, coatings and related phenomena continue to attract considerable attention worldwide. Research activities are not only splendid but also very diverse, ranging from investigations...

...Kevin C. Baker, PhD ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 surfaces With the emergence of ‘nano’ – nanostructured materials, nanoparticles, nanodevices – in the field of biomedical research and development, the interface between the synthetic and biologic environment is playing...

... bypass grafts, and ongoing research to modify and improve stents and prosthetic conduits for bypass grafts with the goal of improving long-term patency rates. An extensive literature review was performed through PubMed. Extensive research efforts are still ongoing in surface modifications to make new...

...Jaroslaw Drelich, PhD ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2013 surfaces The year of 2013 has been an amazing journey for me as an editor of this new journal Surface Innovations. I am still learning how to make the journal more appealing to readers and attract contributions...

... and suitability for coating large and curved surface areas. This issue could not have materialized without the contributions from the invited authors of included articles, the time and effort that reviewers have dedicated to the manuscripts during the review process and help received from the publisher. I...