期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 6, 期 11, 页码 8868-8877出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am5015937
关键词
superhydrophobic surfaces; tunable adhesion; selective transportation; heterogeneous chemistry; spray-coating
资金
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [21301141]
- program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University, China [IRT1177]
- Scientific and Technical Innovation Project of Northwest Normal University [NWNU-LKQN-12-6]
In this paper, tunable adhesive superhydrophobic ZnO surfaces have been fabricated successfully by spraying ZnO nanoparticle (NP) suspensions onto desired substrates. We regulate the spray-coating process by changing the mass percentage of hydrophobic ZnO NPs (which were achieved by modifying hydrophilic ZnO NPs with stearic acid) in the hydrophobic/hydrophilic ZnO NP mixtures to control heterogeneous chemical composition of the ZnO surfaces. Thus, the water adhesion on the same superhydrophobic ZnO surface could be effectively tuned by controlling the surface chemical composition without altering the surface morphology. Compared with the conventional tunable adhesive superhydrophobic surfaces, on which there were only three different water sliding angle values: lower than 10 degrees, 90 degrees (the water droplet is firmly pinned on the surface at any tilted angles), and the value between the two ones, the water adhesion on the superhydrophobic ZnO surfaces has been tuned effectively, on which the sliding angle is controlled from 2 +/- 1 degrees to 9 +/- 1 degrees, 21 +/- 2 degrees, 39 +/- 3 degrees, and 90 degrees. Accordingly, the adhesive force can be adjusted from extremely low (similar to 2.5 mu N) to very high (similar to 111.6 mu N). On the basis of the different adhesive forces of the tunable adhesive superhydrophobic surfaces, the selective transportation of microdroplets with different volumes was achieved, which has never been reported before. In addition, we demonstrated a proof of selective transportation of microdroplets with different volumes for application in the droplet-based microreactors via our tunable adhesive superhydrophobic surfaces for the quantitative detection of AgNO3 and NaOH. The results reported herein realize the selective transportation of microdroplets with different volumes and we believe that this method would potentially be used in many important applications, such as selective water droplet transportation, biomolecular quantitative detection and droplet-based biodetection.
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