Control over surface hydrophobicity is of crucial importance in tribology, functional coatings, drug delivery, and microfluidic systems. Surfaces with controlled wettabilities have been prepared by numerous chemical modifications using self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), [1] small molecules, [2] polymers [3] and polyelectrolyte multilayers, [4] or by physically changing the surface morphology, [5] or a combination of both. [6] Among the different surfaces, superhydrophobic surfaces with water contact angles (CAs) higher than 150°, have attracted great interest for both fundamental research and practical applications. [7] Superhydrophobic surfaces have generally been obtained by enhancing surface roughness using photolithography and etching followed by deposition of low surface energy materials, e.g. fluorinated compounds. The methods used for roughening surfaces and reducing their surface energy include plasma polymerization, [8] anodic oxidation of aluminum, [9] nanosphere lithography, electrohydrodynamic deposition of polystyrene, [10] plasma fluorination of polybutadiene, [11] aligned polyacrylonitrile nanofibers, [12] perfluorinated polyelectrolytes, [13] composite of polyelectrolyte multilayers and silica nanoparticles (NPs) [14] and layered double hydroxides.[15]Fluorinated materials and SAMs have been used extensively to hydrophobize surfaces, nevertheless the use of nanometer sized fluorinated inorganic NPs has not been explored as means to superhydrophobize surfaces. Surprisingly, the preparation of inorganic NPs stabilized with fluorinated ligands is very rare and was shown on a small number of systems including, gold, palladium, silver, ruthenium and silica, [16] where some of the reports have shown highly ordered arrays of hexagonal packing.[17] To our knowledge there are no reports for the use of these NPs for superhydrophobizing surfaces. Takahara et al have used the sol-gel method to hydrolyze and condense colloidal silica particles on surfaces and then coat them with fluoroalkylsilane. [18] When the fractional amounts of both ingredients were optimized the films exhibited CAs of up to 150°.Herein, we introduce a new strategy to prepare hydrophobic to superhydrophobic surfaces by depositing ∼2.5 nm FePt NPs with varying degree of fluorinated ligands on their surface. FePt alloys are an important class of materials in permanent magnetic applications because of their large uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy and have been shown to pack differently depending on their core size and the ligands length and chemical properties.[19] FePt NPs are prepared by reducing a platinum salt and thermal decomposition of iron-pentacarbonyl at high temperatures in the presence of a long chain carboxylic acid and amine (see experimental section). The fact that the NPs carry two types of ligands offer a modular way to change the NPs properties. [20] Johnson et al has recently shown the possibility of place exchanging the oleyl amine ligand with thiols and the oleic acid ligand with a different carboxylic acid.[21] ...