Issue 7, 2010

Fabrication of flexible superhydrophobic biomimic surfaces

Abstract

Flexible superhydrophobic films are fabricated by thermally evaporating silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) on the created flexible hemispheres arrays and modifying the Ag NPs surface with 1-dodecanethiol. The morphology of the generated biomimic film is similar to natural lotus leaves consisting of hierarchical micro/nano structures. The biomimic film exhibits remarkable superhydrophobicity with a high water contact angle (CA) of about 166° and a low sliding angle (SA) of less than 3°.

Graphical abstract: Fabrication of flexible superhydrophobic biomimic surfaces

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Oct 2009
Accepted
04 Jan 2010
First published
03 Feb 2010

Soft Matter, 2010,6, 1438-1443

Fabrication of flexible superhydrophobic biomimic surfaces

M. Xu, N. Lu, H. Xu, D. Qi, Y. Wang, S. Shi and L. Chi, Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 1438 DOI: 10.1039/B922535H

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