The speed of an alpine ski depends on many properties, including the chemical composition of the base material, the surface
structuring of the base and the complex tribology involving the base, the snow and the intermediate water layer that develops as
a consequence of solar heating and friction. Using the superhydrophobic properties of some natural leaves as a template,
samples of UHMWPE were hot embossed using stainless steel meshes of different mesh sizes using a hot press at constant 300
N applied force for different periods of time. It was found that as the mesh size increased, decreasing the surface feature size
from 78 to 51