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SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY
Volume 59, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-016-0307-1
Keywords
femtosecond laser; polystyrene (PS); wettability; micro-pits & micro-grooves; surface texturing and surface modification
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In this paper, we demonstrated a simple method to create either a hydrophilic or hydrophobic surface. With femtosecond laser irradiation at different laser parameters, the water contact angle (WCA) on polystyrene's surface can be modified to either 12.7 degrees or 156.2 degrees from its original WCA of 88.2 degrees. With properly spaced micro-pits created, the surface became hydrophilic probably due to the spread of the water droplets into the micro-pits. While with properly spaced micro-grooves created, the surface became rough and more hydrophobic. We investigated the effect of laser parameters on WCAs and analyzed the laser-treated surface roughness, profiles and chemical bonds by surface profilometer, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). For the laser-treated surface with low roughness, the polar (such as C-O, C=O, and O-C=O bonds) and non-polar (such as C-C or C-H bonds) groups were found to be responsible for the wettability changes. While for a rough surface, the surface roughness or the surface topography structure played a more significant role in the changes of the surface WCA. The mechanisms involved in the laser surface wettability modification process were discussed.
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