Infusing Lubricant onto Erasable Microstructured Surfaces toward Guided Sliding of Liquid Droplets

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• 作者：Xia-chao Chen ; Ke-feng Ren ; Jing Wang ; Wen-xi Lei ; Jian Ji
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 18, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：9
• 期：2
• 页码：1959-1967
• 全文大小：511K
• ISSN：1944-8252

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Introducing a lubricant layer onto surfaces has emerged as a novel strategy to address a wide range of interface-related challenges. Recent studies of lubricant-infused surfaces have extended beyond repelling liquids to manipulating the mobility of fluids. In this study, we report a design of slippery surfaces based on infusing lubricant onto a polyelectrolyte multilayer film whose surface microstructures can be erased rapidly under mild condition. Unlike other lubricant-infused surfaces, the liquid movements (e.g., moving resistance and direction) on such surfaces can be manipulated via programming the surface microstructures beforehand. The work reported here offers a versatile design concept of lubricant-infused surfaces and may turn on new applications of this emerging class of bioinspired materials.