“…Laser texturing of different materials, including glasses, semiconductors, polymers and metals enables the production of surfaces with superior wetting properties, which may be exhibited as extreme water repellency [19,25,26], self-healing [27], self-cleaning [28], anti-icing [29], reduced drag in laminar and turbulent flows [30], significantly enhanced heat transfer [31,32], improved corrosion resistance [33,34] and biodegradability [24]. The majority of these studies were made by ultrashort, i.e., pico-/femtosecond lasers.…”