Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 913-919Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la304791q
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- Collaborative Research Center of the German Science Foundation [SFB 569]
- Network of Functional Nanostructures, BW-Stiftung
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Freeze fracturing is applied to make the wetting behavior of artificially nanopatterned Si surfaces directly visible. For this purpose, almost hexagonally arranged nanopillars of fixed areal density (127 mu m(-2)) and diameters (35 nm) but varying heights (40-150 nm) were fabricated on silicon. Measurement of contact angles (CM) including hysteresis allowed to distinguish between the Wenzel (W) and the Cassie-Baxter (CB) states with droplets completely wetting the pillars or residing on top of them, respectively. Providing additional depth contrast by evaporating the ice replica with thin carbon and (typically 3 nm) platinum layers under 450 allowed resolving 3D features of 5 nm within the ice replica. In this way, laterally sharp transitions from CB- to W-states could be revealed, indicating the formation of zero-curvature water surfaces even on the nanoscale,
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