Reversible Switching of Water‐Droplet Adhesion on a Superhydrophobic Polythiophene Surface

Xu, Lianyi; Lü, Xuemin; Li, Mei; Lu, Qinghua

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“…These properties are called parahydrophobic, as described by Marmur, and can explain the high adhesion of rose leaves and gecko feet, for example. Many processes can be employed in order to control these parameters and, as a consequence, the water adhesion . For example, Bhushan et al.…”

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Control over Water Adhesion on Nanostructured Parahydrophobic Films Using Mesh Substrates

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Controlo ver water adhesion is extremely necessary for many applications in water harvesting, liquid transportation, and water/oil separation, for example. Inspiredb y natural speciess uch as rose petals and gecko feet, these properties can be controlled with the topography of surface structures. Here, we report for the first time the electrodeposition of sticking conductingp olymers forming nanofilaments or nanosheets on textured mesh substrates. We show that the presence of mesh textures can reduce the water adhesion,a lthough the adhesion still remains relativelyh igh. This is probably due to ah igh amount of air between the mesh wires and al ow amount of air on them. Moreover,i ti s also possible to control the water adhesion with the mesh openingo rb ym odifying the shape of the nanostructures. This work opens news trategies for the control of water adhesion.

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Control over Water Adhesion on Nanostructured Parahydrophobic Films Using Mesh Substrates

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“…Inorganic TiO 2 semiconductor is an important photo-responsive multifunctional material. For example, responsive water-droplet adhesion between sliding and pinned states on a superhydrophobic polythiophene film constructed by a versatile electrodeposition method is realized by adjusting electric potential [89]. In recent years, smart wettability-responsive surfaces with reversibly switching between superhydrophilicity and superhydrophobicity have attracted increasing interests.…”

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TiO2 -Based Surfaces with Special Wettability – From Nature to Biomimetic Application

Huang¹,

Lai²

2015

Wetting and Wettability

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Super-wetting/antiwetting surfaces with extremely high contrast of surface energy and liquid adhesion have attracted a lot of interest in both fundamental research and industry. Various types of special wetting surfaces can be constructed by adjusting the topographical structure and chemical composition. In this chapter, recent advance of the super-wetting/antiwetting surfaces with special solid/liquid adhesion has been reviewed, with a focus on the biomimetic fabrication and applications of TiO -based surfaces. Special super-wettability examples include lotus-leaf-inspired surfaces with low adhesion, rose-petal-inspired surfaces with high adhesion, spider silk bioinspired surfaces with directional adhesion, fish-scale-inspired underwater superoleophobic surface, and artificial surfaces with controllable or stimuli-responsive liquid adhesion. In addition, we will review some potential applications related to artificial antiwetting surface with controllable adhesion, e.g., self-cleaning, antifogging/antiicing, micro-droplet manipulation, fog/water collection, water/oil separation, antibioadhesion, micro-template for patterning, and friction reduction. Finally, the difficulty and prospects of this renascent and rapidly developing field are also briefly proposed and discussed.Keywords: Wettability, Super-wetting/antiwetting, "dhesion, TiO -based surface, "pplication © 2015 The Author(s). Licensee InTech. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. . IntroductionDuring the past decades, super-antiwetting surfaces, with a water contact angle WC" greater than o , have attracted considerable interest due to their importance in both fundamental research and practical application [ -]. Two types of extremely superantiwetting cases exist in nature, which are the sliding super-antiwetting lotus leaves or water strider with ultralow water sliding resistance and the sticky super-antiwetting petal effect or gecko feet with extremely high liquid adhesion. "iomimetic studies demonstrate that the synergistic effect of topographical structures and chemical compositions plays a vital role on the special functional surfaces with various adhesions. These findings have inspired the creation of super-antiwetting functional surfaces with self-cleaning, anti-icing/ antifogging, water/oil separation, micro-droplet manipulation, anti-bioadhesion, microtemplate, and low-friction transportation [ -].Figure . Some natural cases in lotus leaf, mosquito eye, rose petal, spider silks, butterfly wings, gecko feet, desert beetle, and water strider and their potential applications of biomimetic super-antiwetting surfaces, such as self-cleaning, anti-icing/antifogging, micro-droplet manipulation, fog/water collection, water/oil separation, anti-bioadhesion, microtemplate for patterning, and friction reductionIn the following two s...

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“…Recently new development in rapid engineering for wettability or adhesion show good results [3][4][5][6][7][8]. But the fabrication of hydrophobic surfaces remains a challenge, these materials often need both low surface energy materials and surface structures.…”

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Staudinger Vilarassa reaction: A powerful tool for surface modification and superhydrophobic properties

Godeau

Darmanin

2015

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

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Reversible Switching of Water‐Droplet Adhesion on a Superhydrophobic Polythiophene Surface

Cited by 22 publications

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Control over Water Adhesion on Nanostructured Parahydrophobic Films Using Mesh Substrates

Control over Water Adhesion on Nanostructured Parahydrophobic Films Using Mesh Substrates

TiO2 -Based Surfaces with Special Wettability – From Nature to Biomimetic Application

Staudinger Vilarassa reaction: A powerful tool for surface modification and superhydrophobic properties

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