Fabrication of superhydrophobic polymer films with hierarchical silver microbowl array structures

Miaojun Xu; Nan Lu; Dianpeng Qi; Hongbo Xu; Yandong Wang; Shoulei Shi; Lifeng Chi

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2011.04.048

Fabrication of superhydrophobic polymer films with hierarchical silver microbowl array structures

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2011 Aug 1;360(1):300-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2011.04.048. Epub 2011 Apr 21.

Authors

Miaojun Xu¹, Nan Lu, Dianpeng Qi, Hongbo Xu, Yandong Wang, Shoulei Shi, Lifeng Chi

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, PR China.

PMID: 21549389
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2011.04.048

Abstract

Flexible superhydrophobic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films with silver bowl-like array structure are fabricated based on the thermal evaporation with sphere monolayer as templates and the modification of 1H, 1H, 2H, 2H-perfluorodecanethiol on silver surface. The silver microbowl arrays were composed of silver nanoparticles with an average diameter size of ca. 10 nm. The polymer films exhibit excellent stability and remarkable superhydrophobicity with a high water contact angle (CA) of about 163° and a low sliding angle (SA) of less than 3°.