One step preparation of superhydrophobic polymeric surface with polystyrene under ambient atmosphere

Fabrication of polystyrene microscale porous substrate and its effects on HL‐7702 cells behaviors

“…The participation of alcohol in the mixture casting solvent had a significant influence on the morphology formation, alcohol is the better co‐solvent with high volatility and low viscosity, and it can reduce the viscosity and dissolving capacity of DMF when mixed. DMF molecules cannot gather up rapidly due to the influence of the ethanol molecules, the solvent will volatilize before its dissolving capacity reaches a maximum value . Coating the PS surface with diluted DMF, smaller size pores can be obtained, the diameter of the micropores will become smaller as the concentration become lower at a certain boundary, and the sharp of the pores become groove‐like.…”

The model of rough wetting for hydrophobic steel meshes that mimic Asparagus setaceus leaf

“…The fabrication of artificial superhydrophobic surface have been achieved great success based on the Wenzel model and CB model, especially the CB model used for very rough surface. It is easily seen from these researches that the magnitudes of the very rough surface roughness studied currently are all in nano/microscopic scales [17][18][19]. However, either a detailed model for the macroscopic roughness effects on contact angle currently exists in the literature.…”

Mechanical and wettable behavior of polyacrylonitrile reinforced fibrous polystyrene mats

“…Generally, in order to obtain super-hydrophobic surfaces, a cooperative effect of low surface free energy materials and high surface roughness is proposed, and the later always plays an important role [6]. There are various approaches to produce rough surfaces such as solidification of melted alkylketene dimmer [7], anode oxidation [8], laser ablation and photolithography-based microfabrication, layer-by-layer selfassembly [9], phase separation [10], domain-selective oxygen plasma treatment [11], hot-water immersion [12], electrospinning [13,14], etc.…”

“…Jiang et al [26] have succeeded in preparing porous and protuberant microsphere embedded nanofibers with a superhydrophobic surface via electrospinning a dilute PS solution. Tan et al [6] has also prepared super-hydrophobic microsphere/nanofiber composite mats via electrospinning PS solution. However, the practical applications for these electrospun super-hydrophobic mats are significantly limited because of their poor mechanical properties.…”