Journal
JOURNAL OF SOL-GEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 83, Issue 3, Pages 518-526Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10971-017-4458-0
Keywords
Anti-reflection; SiO2 films; OTS; Superhydrophobic property; Sol-gel
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51372179]
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Hubei Province [2014BAA136]
- Hubei Province Foreign Science and Technology Project [2016AHB027]
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Synthesizing multifunctional films to apply to the glasses for optical and advanced engineering applications, especially for concentrating solar power application, is a severe challenge. Herein, we report an anti-reflection SiO2 thin films with super-hydrophobic property. The SiO2 thin films are successfully synthesized on the soda lime glass by sol-gel spin-coating method, using tetraethylorthosilicate as a precursor and octadecyltrichlorosilane as a modification agent. The properties of films were characterized by fourier transform infrared spectra, field emission scanning electron microscopy, UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer and water contact angles apparatus. The results indicate that anti-reflection SiO2 thin films have excellent visible light transmittance ranging from 97.8 to 103.4% with treatment time in tetraethylorthosilicate solution increasing from 1 min to 3 h. Moreover, such film exhibits super-hydrophobic property with water contact angles of 150.6A degrees when treatment time is 3 h, owning to a hierarchical structure of the SiO2 nanoparticles (50 nm) and microscale dendritic aggregates. Fortunately, anti-reflection octadecyltrichlorosilane-treated SiO2 films with super-hydrophobic property display a promising application in various fields, especially in concentrating solar power for reducing specular reflectance efficiency. [GRPAHICS]
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