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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4893945
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- National Science Foundation of China [61275008, 51335008]
- special-funded programme on National Key Scientific Instruments and Equipment Development of China [2012YQ12004706]
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This Letter demonstrates a simple method to achieve underwater anisotropic oil-wetting using silicon surfaces with a microgroove array produced by femtosecond laser ablation. The oil contact angles along the direction perpendicular to the grooves are consistently larger than those parallel to the microgroove arrays in water because the oil droplet is restricted by the energy barrier that exists between the non-irradiated domain and the trapped water in the laser-ablated microgrooves. This underwater anisotropic oil-wetting is able to be controlled, and the anisotropy can be tuned from 0 degrees to similar to 20 degrees by adjusting the period of the microgroove arrays. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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