期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 13, 期 19, 页码 23161-23172出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c03272
关键词
hierarchical micro-/nanostructure; superhydrophobic surface; ultrafast thermal pyrolysis; polymer foam materials; mechanical robustness
资金
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51973047]
- Science Foundation and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province [LGG20B040002, LY18E030005]
- Project for the Science and Technology Program of Hangzhou [20191203B16, 20201203B134, 20201203B136]
The study demonstrates the use of ultrafast flame treatment to create robust superhydrophobic surfaces on soft PDMS foams, allowing for control over surface structures by adjusting flame scanning speed. The optimized surfaces exhibit reliable mechanical strength and excellent water repellency, even under harsh environmental conditions.
Superhydrophobic surfaces are imperative in flexible polymer foams for diverse applications; however, traditional surface coatings on soft skeletons are often fragile and can hardly endure severe deformation, making them unstable and highly susceptible to cyclic loadings. Therefore, it remains a great challenge to balance their mutual exclusiveness of mechanical robustness and surface water repellency on flexible substrates. Herein, we describe how robust superhydrophobic surfaces on soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) foams can be achieved using an extremely simple, ultrafast, and environmentally friendly flame scanning strategy. The ultrafast flame treatment (1-3 s) of PDMS foams produces microwavy and nanosilica rough structures bonded on the soft skeletons, forming robust superhydrophobic surfaces (i.e., water contact angles (WCAs) > 155 degrees and water sliding angles (WSAs) < 5 degrees). The rough surface can be effectively tailored by simply altering the flame scanning speed (2.5-15.0 cm/s) to adjust the thermal pyrolysis of the PDMS molecules. The optimized surfaces display reliable mechanical robustness and excellent water repellency even after 100 cycles of compression of 60% strain, stretching of 100% strain, and bending of 90 degrees and hostile environmental conditions (including acid/salt/alkali conditions, high/low temperatures, UV aging, and harsh cyclic abrasion). Moreover, such flame-induced superhydrophobic surfaces are easily peeled off from ice and can be healable even after severe abrasion cycles. Clearly, the flame scanning strategy provides a facile and versatile approach for fabricating mechanically robust and surface superhydrophobic PDMS foam materials for applications in complex conditions.
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