Journal
THIN SOLID FILMS
Volume 527, Issue -, Pages 179-185Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2012.12.010
Keywords
Water adhesive surface; Siloxane formation; Superhydrophobic; Si nanowire; Metal assisted chemical etching; Wettability conversion
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [2012K001321, 2012-0006689]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Korean government (MEST) [2011-0028594]
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Bio-inspired superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted considerable attention due to their potential applications. Although various techniques to fabricate artificial superhydrophobic surfaces have been demonstrated, most of the methods lack water adherence or controllable wetting properties of the surfaces, which hinders their practical usage. In this paper, we present a simple approach to fabricate water-adhesive superhydrophobic silicon nanowire (Si NW) surfaces by applying a thermal annealing treatment in oxygen ambient. The Si NW arrays were fabricated using a metal assisted chemical etching method. After the cycled rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process at 1000 degrees C under oxygen ambient, the water contact angle of the Si NW surface changed dramatically from 0 to 154.3 degrees with high water-adhesive properties. This drastic change of the wettability could be attributed to the formed siloxane groups (-Si-O-Si-) on the thermally-treated Si NW surfaces; H2O is released from two adjacent silanol groups (-Si-O-H) to form siloxane groups during the RTA process. When the annealed Si NW was exposed in air, the wettability of the superhydrophobic Si NW was reconverted due to the re-formation of silanol groups (-Si-O-H). The wettability conversion of Si NW between superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic was repeated with good reversibility. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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