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. Slippery lubricant‐infused surfaces are attracting a lot of interest due to their unique liquid repellency, low sliding angles, antibiofouling, anti‐icing, and self‐healing properties as well as various potential applications. In this progress report, the current state of design, manufacturing, and application of slippery lubricant‐infused surfaces is discussed.