期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 5, 期 17, 页码 8753-8760出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am4025577
关键词
superhydrophobic surfaces; tunable adhesion; heterogeneous chemistry; microdroplet transportation
资金
- Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology [ES201008]
- Natural Scientific Research Innovation Foundation in Harbin Institute of Technology [HIT. NSRIF. 2009087]
- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of china [20112302120062]
Controlling water adhesion is important for super-hydrophobic surfaces in many applications. Compared with numerous researches about the effect of microstructures on the surface adhesion, research relating to the influence of surface chemical composition on the surface adhesion is extremely rare. Herein, a new strategy for preparation of tunable adhesive superhydrophobic surfaces through designing heterogeneous chemical composition (hydrophobic/hydrophilic) on the rough substrate is reported, and the influence of surface chemical composition on the surface adhesion are examined. The surfaces were prepared through self-assembling of mixed thiol (containing both HS(CH2)(9)CH3 and HS(CH2)(11)OH) on the hierarchical structured copper substrates. By simply controlling the concentration of HS(CH2)(11)OH in the modified solution, tunable adhesive superhydrophobic surfaces can be obtained. The adhesive force of the surfaces can be increased from extreme low (about 8 mu N) to very high (about 65 mu N). The following two reasons can be used to explain the tunable effect: one is the number of hydrogen bond for the variation of surface chemical composition; and the other is the variation of contact area between the water droplet and surface because of the capillary effect that results from the combined effect of hydrophilic hydroxyl groups and microstructures on the surface. Noticeably, water droplets with different pH (2-12) have similar contact angles and adhesive forces on the surfaces, indicating that these surfaces are chemical resistant to acid and alkali. Moreover, the as-prepared surfaces were also used as the reaction substrates and applied in the droplet-based microreactor for the detection of vitamin C. This report provides a new method for preparation of superhydrophobic surfaces with tunable adhesion, which could not only help us further understand the principle for the fabrication of tunable adhesive superhydrophobic surfaces, but also potentially be used in many important applications, such as microfluidic devices and chemical microreactors.
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