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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 110, Issue 23, Pages 11247-11252Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp056969x
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The present work reports a simple and economic route for production and characterization of stable superhydrophobic surfaces from thin copper layers coated on arbitrary solid substrates. The thin copper layer was anodized in a 2 M aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide to form a thin film of copper hydroxide nanoneedles; then the film was reacted with n-dodecanethiol to form a thermally stable Cu(SC12H25)(2) superhydrophobic coating. The contact angle of the modified nanoneedle surface was higher than 150 degrees, and its tilt angle was smaller than 2 degrees. Furthermore, the surface fabricated on copper foil kept its superhydrophobic property after heating at 160 degrees C in air for over 42 h. This technique has also been applied for fabrication of copper wire with superhydrophobic submicrofiber coating to mimic water strider legs. The maximal supporting force of the superhydrophobic copper column has also been investigated in comparison to real water striders.
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