A "non-sticky" superhydrophobic surface prepared by self-assembly of fluoroalkyl phosphonic acid on a hierarchically micro/nanostructured alumina gel film

Wei Ma; Hui Wu; Yuji Higaki; Hideyuki Otsuka; Atsushi Takahara

doi:10.1039/c2cc32513f

A "non-sticky" superhydrophobic surface prepared by self-assembly of fluoroalkyl phosphonic acid on a hierarchically micro/nanostructured alumina gel film

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Jul 11;48(54):6824-6. doi: 10.1039/c2cc32513f. Epub 2012 May 31.

Authors

Wei Ma¹, Hui Wu, Yuji Higaki, Hideyuki Otsuka, Atsushi Takahara

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.

PMID: 22655297
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc32513f

Abstract

A hierarchically micro/nanostructured alumina gel film was prepared by using a simple sol-gel process; upon self-assembly of fluoroalkyl phosphonic acid, a "non-sticky" superhydrophobic surface was obtained.