Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 9, Issue 9, Pages 8393-8402Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b16444
Keywords
lotus effect; petal effect; roughness; porosity; superhydrophobicity; deicing
Funding
- Australian Research Council [IH 150100003]
- University of Adelaide
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Adhesion behavior of superhydrophobic (SH) surfaces is an active research field related to various engineering applications in controlled microdroplet transportation, self-cleaning, deicing, biochemical separation, tissue engineering, and water harvesting. Herein, we report a facile approach to control droplet adhesion, bouncing and rolling on properties of SH surfaces by timing their air-gap and roughness-height by altering the concentrations of poly dimethyl-siloxane (PDMS). The optimal use of PDMS (4-16 wt %) in a dual-scale (nano- and microparticles) composite enables control of the specific surface area (SSA), pore volume, and roughness of matrices that result in a well controlled adhesion between water droplets and SH surfaces. The sliding angles of these surfaces were tuned to be varied between 2 +/- 1 and 87 +/- 2 degrees, which are attributed to the transformation of the contact type between droplet and surface from point contact to area contact. We further explored the effectiveness of these low and high adhesive SH surfaces in icing and deicing actions, which provides a new insight into design highly efficient and low-cost ice-release surface for cold temperature applications. Low adhesion (lotus effect) surface with higher pore-volume exhibited relatively excellent ice-release properties with significant icing delay ability principally attributed to the large air gap in the coating matrix than SH matrix with high adhesion (petal effect).
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