Journal
THIN SOLID FILMS
Volume 518, Issue 5, Pages 1571-1574Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2009.09.059
Keywords
Superhydrophilic; Wetting property; Stainless steel; Surface-texturing; Micro/nano-textured surfaces; Crystallization; Amorphous silicon
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Aluminum-induced crystallization (AIC) of amorphous silicon (a-Si) is used to produce micro/nano-textured surfaces on stainless steel substrates at low temperatures for altering the wetting property of the substrates. The micro/nano-textured surfaces were characterized using scanning electron microscopy, X-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction. The wetting properties of the textured surfaces were characterized by water contact angle measurements. It was found that AIC of a-Si changes the apparent contact angles of stainless steel substrates from 90 degrees to about 0 degrees, measured 0.5 s after a water droplet drops on the surfaces. The study also shows that a superhydrophilic textured surface can be converted to a highly hydrophobic surface with an apparent contact angle of 145 degrees by coating the surface with a layer of octadecyltrichlorosilane. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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