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JOURNAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY-MATERIALS SCIENCE EDITION
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 513-517Publisher
JOURNAL WUHAN UNIV TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1007/s11595-007-4513-8
Keywords
hydrophobic; bionics; surface structure; nano/micro replication
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20573055]
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Nano/micro replication, a technique widely applied in the microelectronics field, was introduced to prepare the hydrophobic bionics microstructure on material surface. Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and polystyrene (PS) moulds of the mastoid microstructure on lotus leaf surface were prepared respectively by the nano/micro replication technology. And poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) replicas with the mastoid-like microstructure were prepared from these two kinds of polymer moulds. Scanning electronic microscope (SEM) was employed to investigate the morphology and microstructures on moulds and replicas. Both the static and dynamic contact angles between water droplet and PDMS replicas' surface were also measured. As a result, similar microstructure can be observed clearly on the surface of PDMS replicas and the static contact angle on PDMS replicas was enhanced dramatically by the existence of these microstructures.
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