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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 316, Issue -, Pages 324-332Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2014.07.184
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Superhydrophobic surface; Cassie state; Drop bouncing; Randomly rough surface; Wenzel roughness factor (rW); Power spectral density
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- [PON 01 02238 (EURO 6)]
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Superhydrophobic surfaces are effective in practical applications provided they are robust superhydrophobic, i.e. able to retain the Cassie state, i. e. with water suspended onto the surface protrusions, even under severe conditions (high pressure, vibrations, high speed impact, etc.). We show that for randomly rough surfaces, given the Young angle, Cassie states are robust when a threshold value of the Wenzel roughness factor, r(W), is exceeded. In particular, superhydrophobic nano-textured surfaces have been generated by self-masked plasma etching. In view of their random roughness, topography features, acquired by Atomic Force Microscopy, have been statistically analyzed in order to gain information on statistical parameters such as power spectral density, fractal dimension and Wenzel roughness factor( r(W)), which has been used to assess Cassie state robustness. Results indicate that randomly rough surfaces produced by plasma at high power or long treatment duration, which are also fractal self-affine, have a r(W) higher than the theoretical threshold, thus for them a robust superhydrophobicity is predicted. In agreement with this, under dynamic wetting conditionson these surfaces the most pronounced superhydrophobic character has been appreciated: they show the lowest contact angle hysteresis and result in the sharpest bouncing when hit by drops at high impact velocity. (C) 2014 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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