Slippery Lubricant-Infused Surfaces: Properties and Emerging Applications

Bioinspired lubricant-infused surfaces exhibit various unique properties attributed to their liquid-like and molecularly smooth nature. Excellent liquid repellency and “slippery” properties, self-healing, antiicing, anticorrosion characteristics, enhanced heat transfer, antibiofouling, and cell-repellent properties have been already demonstrated. This progress report highlights some of the recent developments in this rapidly growing area, focusing on properties of lubricant-infused surfaces, and their emerging applications as well as some future challenges.