Journal
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 31, Issue 27, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202101090
Keywords
anti‐ biofouling; blood‐ repellent coating; corrosion resistance; lubricant‐ infused slippery surfaces; polydimethylsiloxane
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Funding
- DFG
- DFG Cluster of Excellence EAM
- Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) of Friedrich-Alexander-University [5500102]
- DFG [442826449, SCHM 1597/38-1, FA 336/13-1, KH 279/6-1]
- FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
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Wetting is a common surface phenomenon with a significant impact on human life. Silicone-based chemistry may serve as a real alternative to banned fluorinated compounds and costly silane-based compounds. Grafting polydimethylsiloxanes to substrates under UV light illumination can create stable lubricant-infused slippery surfaces, offering a simple, fast, scalable, environmentally friendly, and low-cost approach.
Wetting is a surface phenomenon that commonly occurs in nature and has an enormous influence on human life. Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces have recently been developed to support the growing demand for anti-fouling coatings. While short-chain fluorinated compounds, commonly used to reduce the surface energy of substrates, are banned due to environmental toxicity, silane-based compounds are expensive and barely scalable. In this sense, silicone-based chemistry may match the gap as a real alternative. However, the grafting approaches demonstrated so far suffered from either slow binding kinetics or are applied under harsh conditions. Here, it is demonstrated that polydimethylsiloxanes graft to virtually any substrate when illuminated by UV light serving simultaneously as a reducing surface energy agent and infusing lubricant. This procedure is applied on metals, metal oxides, and ceramics of various surface morphologies. The proposed approach is simple, fast, scalable, environmentally friendly, and of low-cost, yet forms stable lubricant-infused slippery surfaces by a one-pot process. Due to the biocompatibility of silicone-based compounds, the process is examined on plain medically applicable substrates such as scalpel blades and glass lenses that display enhanced corrosion resistance, reduced friction through incision, and repel blood staining and bacterial adhesion without deteriorating their mechanical and optical characteristics.
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