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Self-Cleaning Performance of the Micropillar-Arrayed Surface and Its Micro-Scale Mechanical Mechanism

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LANGMUIR
卷 37, 期 33, 页码 10079-10088

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01398

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11872114, 12032004, 12022211, 12002034]
  2. Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation [3212011]

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The study showed that the self-cleaning efficiency of micropillar-arrayed surfaces increases with the size of microparticles. For large and small microparticles, the self-cleaning efficiency also increases with an increase in preload. However, for medium microparticles, the self-cleaning efficiency first increases and then decreases as the preload increases. The mechanical mechanism underlying such self-cleaning performance is mainly attributed to the competition among various energy factors like elastic energy, interfacial adhesion energy, and contact states between microparticles and micropillars.
The exceptional adhesive ability of geckos remains almost uninfluenced by contaminated surfaces, showing that the adhesion system of geckos has self-cleaning properties. Although there have been several studies on the self-cleaning performance of geckos and gecko-inspired synthetic adhesives, the microscale mechanical mechanism of self-cleaning is still unclear. In the present study, a micropillar-arrayed surface is fabricated using a template molding method to investigate its self-cleaning performance in a load-pull contact process. The effects of preload, microparticle size on self-cleaning properties are studied. The self-cleaning efficiency of the micropillar-arrayed surface is found to increase with an increase in the microparticle size. For large and small microparticles, self-cleaning efficiency increases with an increase in the preload. For medium microparticles, self-cleaning efficiency first increases and then decreases as the preload increases. The mechanical mechanism underlying such self-cleaning performance is further elucidated; it is mainly attributed to the competition among the elastic energy stored in the micropillars induced by the bending deformation, the interfacial adhesion energy between the microparticles and the deformed micropillars, and the interfacial adhesion energy between the microparticles and substrate, as well as the varying contact states between the microparticles and the deformed micropillars. The preload can not only change the contact states between the microparticles and the micropillar-arrayed surface but also influence the bending elastic energy stored in the micropillars. The results obtained in the present study can help deeply understand the self-cleaning mechanism of micropillar-arrayed surfaces as well as provide a guideline for designing functional surfaces with high self-cleaning efficiency.

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