A Rapid One-Step Fabrication of Patternable Superhydrophobic Surfaces Driven by Marangoni Instability

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• 作者：Sung-Min Kang ; Sora Hwang ; Si-Hyung Jin ; Chang-Hyung Choi ; Jongmin Kim ; Bum Jun Park ; Daeyeon Lee ; Chang-Soo Lee
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：March 18, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：30
• 期：10
• 页码：2828-2834
• 全文大小：354K
• 年卷期：v.30,no.10(March 18, 2014)
• ISSN：1520-5827

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We present a facile and inexpensive approach without any fluorinated chemistry to create superhydrophobic surface with exceptional liquid repellency, transportation of oil, selective capture of oil, optical bar code, and self-cleaning. Here we show experimentally that the control of evaporation is important and can be used to form superhydrophobic surface driven by Marangoni instability: the method involves in-situ photopolymerization in the presence of a volatile solvent and porous PDMS cover to afford superhydrophobic surfaces with the desired combination of micro- and nanoscale roughness. The porous PDMS cover significantly affects Marangoni convection of coating fluid, inducing composition gradients at the same time. In addition, the change of concentration of ethanol is able to produce versatile surfaces from hydrophilic to superhydrophobic and as a consequence to determine contact angles as well as roughness factors. In conclusion, the control of evaporation under the polymerization provides a convenient parameter to fabricate the superhydrophobic surface, without application of fluorinated chemistry and the elegant nanofabrication technique.