We inform you that several members of the N2BP participated as authors in the publication entitled “Glass Surface Nanostructuring by Soft Lithography and Chemical Etching”. Among them are doctors Jonathan Correa, Tomás Corrales, Natalia Hassan and Valeria del Campo, as well as Luciano Bravo, Martín Ampuero, Sofía Flores and Benjamín Schleyer. “In this work, a simple method is reported to nanostructure a glass surface by soft lithography and chemical etching in potassium hydroxide (KOH) solutions. The glass samples etched with a polymeric mask showed a nanopattern with stripes of width between 220 and 450 nm and average heights between 50 and 200 nm. Depending on the concentration of the solution or the etching time, the nanopatterns obtained showed an increase or reduction of the contact angle with water. This was done with the aim of obtaining self-cleaning surfaces, which have potential applications in biotechnology, instrument design, infrastructure maintenance and photovoltaic solar panels,” says Dr. Jonathan Correa.

We hope you will be encouraged to read the document, as it has been published with universal access as part of the commitment to open science.

You can access it on the following website: https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14211714