@article {Baldacchini:555, title = {Superhydrophobic surfaces prepared by microstructuring of silicon using a femtosecond laser}, journal = {Langmuir}, volume = {22}, year = {2006}, pages = {4917{\textendash}4919}, abstract = {Superhydrophobic surfaces exhibit contact angles with water that are larger than 150 and negligible difference in contact angle between the advancing and receding contact angles, the so-called contact angle hysteresis. In this paper, we present a novel and simple structuring process that uses intense femtosecond- laser pulses to create microstructured superhydrophobic surfaces with remarkable wetting characteristics.}, doi = {10.1021/la053374k}, url = {/files/mazur/files/rep_555.pdf}, author = {T. Baldacchini and J. E. Carey and M. Zhou and Mazur, E.} }